You don't have to worry about which serial ATA port you use to connect a device to a motherboard: all the ports run at the same speed. However, every motherboard that supports SATA supports a ...

SATA disk drives are normally in a one drive/one SATA controller port configuration. But in recent years, a new approach, known as the port multiplier, has extended this connectivity to multiple ...

I was thinking of adding this enclosure to my Linux NAS box at some point in the future. The product comes with a PCI eSATA RAID card that support the two 4x port multiplier backplane in the enclosure ...

ASRock has unveiled its new X99-based motherboards, with one of the top-end boards being the new X99 Extreme 11 motherboard which features an insane 18 SATA ports. The ASRock X99 Extreme 11 ...

A silly question / idle thought for you guys: Most modern SATA SSDs are bumping up against the 500MB/s bulk transfer limit. Could a SATA 2.5" SSD have two SATA ports (and two SATA cables) and be able ...

Is Built in Support Better? The discussion so far has revolved around add-on controllers, but these aren’t necessary with AMD boards, as the company’s own SB850 Southbridge natively supports SATA ...

Short of storage space for your digital files and backups, Addonics has a new product for you. The company has announced a new hardware port replicator for SATA ports that comes in two styles. The HPM ...

Thin clients were once thought by some to be the future of computing. These relatively low-power machines would rely on large server farms to handle the bulk of their processing and storage, serving ...

If you are looking to upgrade your Windows or Linux Ubuntu PC you might be interested to know that QNAP has unveiled their latest expansion card in the form of the QXP-1600eS-A1164 a quad-port SATA ...

For over a decade, the SATA interface was the backbone of consumer PC storage. Before NVMe drives in M.2 slots became the new norm, every SSD, HDD and optical drive in your system used SATA to ...