SATA vs PATA Hard Disk Drives: A GuideMarch 4th, 2009 With the advent of new SATA drives, as you probably know, there was a big naming issue. The old IDE drives needed a name to distinguish it from SATA drives and so the name PATA was born.
Terabyte Disk Drives From Seagate (& Samsung)June 26th, 2007 Seagate announced availability of Terabyte disk drives at 7200 rpm; separate models targeted for enterprise and consumer desktops. The enterprise drives features serial attached SCSI interface option.
Cool Your SATA HDD Down with a Built-in FanOctober 17th, 2008 How many of us haven't had nightmares with Blue Screen Of death (BSD) in Windows? You can always be sure that one reason for Harddrive crashing is overheating. So SATA Harddisk dock has come up with a new version that has built in cooling fan to ensure your hard drive stays nice and cool.
Seagate Unveils 6Gb/s SATA HDD for Unmatched Improvement on Streaming and Data TransfersMarch 12th, 2009 Seagate, teamed with AMD unveiled Serial ATA 6Gigabit/second – for bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications including gaming, streaming video and graphics multimedia at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans this week. The Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second storage interface will deliver the highest performance – burst speeds of up to 6Gigabits per second – for all PC applications.
200 GB Notebook Drive From ToshibaJune 6th, 2006 Toshiba has claimed a first with its MK2035GSS 2.5in notebook hard drive which uses perpendicular recording technology to achieve a massive 200GB of storage. It can withstand 325g operating shock and 850g non-operating shock.
Recommended Value Desktop PC (Assembled) Configuration for Home Users in IndiaFebruary 24th, 2007 We recently purchased parts for a home desktop PC in India for the value oriented price sensitive segment (along with several new computers for office). My objective was to choose a solid home desktop personal comnputer with decent graphics, solid sound system and strong processor speed.
A Guide to Your Computer Mainboard/ MotherboardMay 1st, 2009 Motherboards are said to be the heart of the computer. Its a matrix that holds or connects to all the important devices and peripherals of the computer such as CPU, hard disk, RAM, SATA, PCI supported cards.
Seagate Constellation - World's Highest Capacity and Power- Efficient SED Hard DrivesFebruary 3rd, 2009 Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today introduced its Constellation™ family of new enterprise storage solutions for Tier-2 nearline storage applications. The two new drive models, the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives, include a combination of features that enable high capacities, increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security.
Working on Site Accessibility & Dedicated Web Hosting Provider LookoutJuly 13th, 2007 I had several reports from users that the site is inaccessible from certain ISP's including but not limited to CableVision. I did everything to figure out what went wrong without much success.
Pros & Cons of Software RAID versus Hardware RAIDSeptember 26th, 2008 In my quest to find the better service between Software RAID & Hardware RAID, I was caught RAID-handed among too many points and nitty-gritties of technical specifications and opinions. As a result of my explorations, I have developed a simple point-by-point structure to let you walk through this topic rather easily.
Comparison of Software RAID on Windows versus LinuxFebruary 18th, 2007 The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is also provided (unless RAID 0) which allows easy and often automatic recovery from hard disk crash.
CCD and CMOS technology - A Comprehensive GuideApril 30th, 2009 CCD and CMOS are two type of image sensors for digital cameras. Both CCD (charge-coupled device) and CMOS (complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor) image sensors have one preliminary objectivity - they have to convert light into electron.
My Dream Computer... AssembledMarch 14th, 2007 I am in the last stages of assembling have assembled my dream computer. The final hurdle is a DVI to VGA connector which turned out defective.
Top 5 Regrets After Migrating From Windows To LinuxJuly 30th, 2007 It has been several months that I fully migrated to Linux. The whole company has moved 100% to Linux, all servers, desktop ...
Top 10 Windows Partiton Manager SoftwareAugust 12th, 2009 Often we come across a question which is the best way to partition a hard drive on PCs? Well, there could be no specific answer to it, except that it would rely on your requirements of performance reliability and usability. There is no one shot answer to how you should partition hard disks on a computer running Windows operating system.
To start geeky things with a straight face (:|), let's get familiar with the full name of the gentlemen we are going to discuss about. PATA stands for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment, SATA means Serial Advanced Technology Attachment and SCSI is Small Computer System Interface. It would have been better if we could stop at that. But gadgetophilia's detailed analysis takes us to a deep level perspective of these three. Generally we have always worked in an environment where the hard drives been categorized by such techie distinctions. Its always okay to ignore some complicated details about hardware but if you are interested in knowing the difference between SATA, PATA and SCSI drives, then here is the best post availble for you.
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