A consortium of companies wants to build on the progress of the Serial ATA hard drive interface in PCs by creating a similar offering for consumer electronics devices. The CE-ATA interface involves ...

Our Power Mac G4 is back from the repair shop and all seems well (see previous item). While the Mac was being fixed, we set up the G4's drive as an external 3.5" FireWire hard drive. Here are some ...

Serial ATA (SATA) is a natural evolution of the ATA specifications used in most hard drives today. SATA-based hard drives are software-compatible with ATA drives, meaning they work with the same ...

You can easily to fill up 10GB with MP3 files, digital images, and multimedia projects. So if you haven’t yet upgraded your hard drive, now might be the time. These ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

These products include portable digital audio players, external hard disk drives (HDDs), ZIP drives, CD burners, DVD burners, high-density PCMCIA type-II storage card readers, Magneto-Optical (MO) ...

For embedded computing hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard drive is usually the last ...

An external hard drive is a piece of equipment that can be connected to your computer to increase its storage space. Unlike the hard drive that's installed in your computer, an external hard drive is ...