Many variants of newer mini PCs are so compact that they appear to only support what you see on the I/O panel, but beneath ...

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 ...

I am using a 2 terabyte 'external' drive for backups. I was using a docking station but to drag and drop all the files to it was looking like forever to get things done. So I took it out of the ...

Computer hard drives come in all shapes and sizes. For the most part, they come preinstalled with your computer or laptop. However, there are times when you may need to access them outside of the ...

We had a recent incident in our lab where SATA 6Gb/s performance inexplicably dropped going from one motherboard to the next. In theory, both boards should have offered the same performance on the ...

Most desktop computers have multiple drive bays, each of which can hold a hard drive. If you have a 3.5-inch hard drive and a 3.5-inch drive bay, it will usually slide right in. However, if your drive ...

When it comes to file transfer, it’s all about speed . Then again, speed means nothing if you don’t have the right connectors on your computer. SATA has become fairly commonplace for hard drives, ...