When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...

Joni Clark, product marketing manager at Seagate Technology and marketing chairperson for the Serial ATA International Organization, a nonprofit industry group developing SATA specifications, said ...

Parallel ATA, or PATA, hard drives and Serial ATA, or SATA, drives have virtually the same physical characteristics and platter speeds. However, the Serial ATA bus supports much faster data throughput ...

I have windows vista running on this system which has no problem with correctly designating drives in proper driv letter order, however the SATA drive which bears the operating system is only ...

Due to the waning popularity of Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) technology in favor of the newer and speedier Serial ATA-based disk drives, Seagate LLC has acknowledged plans to stop ...

I wish motherboard manufacturers wouldn't consign parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives and the IDE ports they require to the dustbin of history just yet with their "one PATA slot per motherboard" mentality ...

The EZ Upgrade notebook hard-drive-upgrade kit uses a dual SATA/PATA interface. Features include a high-speed 2.0 hard-drive enclosure with USB 1.1 compatibility, a USB cable, and the vendor’s upgrade ...

We found this fairly good deal on a 400GB Seagate hard drive over at Outpost.com. The drive is $109 for 400GB, and ships free, which makes this around 27 cents a gigabyte. Mount this up on a cheap ...