With due respect, It's not looking good for that drive. Most of the solutions are non-ideal and the part you're looking at won't do a bit of good. If you have the missing part, you may be able to rig ...

Hard disk drives connect to a motherboard using either a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment connector or an Integrated Drive Electronics connector. SATA drives are newer than IDE, so older ...

Manufacturers seal hard drives in hermetic rooms to avoid any contamination by particles of dust, a single one of which can completely destroy a hard drive. If you were to open one up, however, you ...

The URVE Board Pi is a single-board computer that’s the same size as a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. But this little computer has a few features that the Raspberry Pi does not, including an M.2 connector ...

Correction: The model of laptop my wife has has a SATA III controller, but Apple supplied only a SATA II drive with it and the controller will not support any of several SATA III-only drives installed ...

We use SATA DOMs a few times a month in many of the NAS products we test. I've pulled two SATA DOMs in the past to run tests on their performance, but both times we killed the drive. SATA DOMs are not ...

Orico has made a clever external 2.5-inch USB enclosure with a retro cassette design that is inexpensive and fun to use. The Orico 2.5-inch USB SATA External Hard Drive Enclosure is a small plastic ...

I broke the data connector on one of my SATA drives. It turns out that the gold contacts you see are not physically attached to the plastic sleeve above them and I twisted the cable juuuuust the right ...