Computex 2014: WD demonstrated their newest drive utilizing a new interconnect today at Computex. The new drive is built upon the same philosophy as the WB Black2 (reviewed here by Tyler Bernath) but ...

Broadcom announces itsRAIDCore BC4000 Series RAID host bus adapter (HBA). It's billed by the company as a reliable high-performance Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controller card. Offering an extensive ...

SATA-IO, the group in charge of maintaining the SATA specification, has announced (PDF) that revision 3.2 of SATA has been finalized. Importantly this revision brings SATA Express, which melds SATA ...

I'm not trying to go overboard, but I would like to get the best performance out of my setup. I really have no idea how those six SATA connectors on the motherboard interface with the CPU. I know they ...

Intel Monday announced a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) that are based on the serial ATA (SATA) 3.0 specification, which doubles I/O throughput compared to previous generation SSDs. [ See also: ...

Intel's Haswell SOC dramatically raised the bar on power efficient system design. To help reach their goal of 20x improvement in idle power, Intel developers are increasingly utilizing the DevSleep ...

The Serial ATA International Organization announced this week that it is developing SATA Express, a new hard drive interface that it says will increase transfer rates to as much as 16Gbps and do so ...

so, i've been working this backwards and forwards in my head and on google. It seems possible, though some of the technicalities escape me. I'd basically like to build the equivalent of an external ...