I have a self-built PC I put together a few years ago in a Fractal Design Arc Midi case. Up till now, it had two drives installed: a 128GB Samsung 830 SSD I was using as the boot partition, and then a ...

A) Do 2.5" laptop SSDs use "Mini SATA"? B) Is 2.5" SATA(as in, the SATA on a 2.5" drive), different dimension connector to 3.5" SATA(as in, SATA on a 3.5" drive)? C) Are all mSATA(micro SATA) and all ...

The face of the datacenter is changing, and radical new approaches are emerging that provide more options for high-performance storage solutions. The size of the server rack has been shrinking quickly ...

SSD is an auxiliary storage device that uses semiconductor memory, and is superior to HDD in terms of read/write speed, quietness, power consumption, and shock resistance. SSDs are further divided ...

The talk of next-gen SSDs really began with the announcement and launch of Intel's Z97 chipset, which brought along support for SATA Express and M.2 connectivity. These were standardised in the SATA 3 ...

There's a hard speed limit imposed upon the hoary ol' SATA connection… 600MB/s and no further. That's as fast as the latest iteration of the storage interface can go; if you want faster then you've ...