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 ...

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 ...

The widespread adoption of the Serial ATA device connection standard may leave you wondering if you have other options. SATA has a few disadvantages when compared to the Serial Attached Small Computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most important information to take away from this feature is whether or not it’s beneficial for a motherboard to have SATA 6Gbps ports. If the on-board SATA 6Gbps ports tend to be fast, they will ...

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 ...

With the last few chipset releases from Intel, there has been a lack of SATA III capable ports for connecting drives. To get around this, the most common solution was to add a PCI Express card capable ...

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 ...