With the upheaval taking place in the memory market, a new rumor has emerged about the demise of the Serial Advanced ...
That’s not always the case, as there are some newer standards available for high-speed drives. But alongside PCIe and NVMe, SATA is still a significant player, especially when it comes to larger-sized ...
The first SSD I ever used was the Samsung 860 EVO — a 250GB SATA drive that was a phenomenal upgrade over my hard drive back in 2018. As great as it was, I naturally switched to NVMe SSDs over the ...
The realm of storage, as is the case of any other technology, is full of jargon and terminology unique to the technology itself. The sheer volume of terms can quickly become baffling to the average ...
This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. NAND flash media solid state drives (SSDs) have largely displaced hard disk drives (HDDs) in client ...
The widespread adoption of the Serial ATA device connection standard may leave you wondering if you have other options. SATA has a few disadvantages when compared to the Serial Attached Small Computer ...
It’s no secret that SATA SSDs are an aging piece of tech. It seems that 2026 could be the year that SATA SSDs begin their descent into archived technology, and that’s a good thing. Recently, it was ...
In May 2011, SandForce released the first SSD bottlenecked by the SATA III bus. It was just five months after Intel released the P67 Express chipset, Intel's first native SATA III capable release.
Since NVMe SSDs came to market, we've largely ignored M.2 SATA products. At one time, these were the hot new form factor responsible for enabling slim PCs and millions of devices support the form ...
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 ...
SSDs, or solid state drives, have drastically improved the computing experience over the last decade or so. Thanks to them, once ponderous boot times now border on instantaneous, programs and games ...
If you're getting into the storage game, even on a locally-attached basis, there are a number of options from which to pick when it comes to the way that you will connect your storage. In this article ...