I have a bunch of SAS drives that were in disk shelves or rack mount servers that have been decommissioned due to power usage and noise. I'd like to still use the drives though, since they are at disk ...

What is Advanced Host Controller Interface? Advanced Host Controller Interface, or AHCI, is a technical standard for an interface that enables software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices.

When you build or buy a computer, some things are sexy and some are just necessary. While processors, RAM and power supplies are some of the fun components, there are underlying things like ...

HighPoint has been around for many years and if you have been tinkering around with PCs for more than a few years you are already familiar with the company. HighPoint was one of the very first RAID ...

A few days after we published the Crucial RealSSD C300 review a second drive arrived so that we could publish a RAID report. That was the beginning of February and by now most people think we just ...

If you've ever gone shopping for a hard to find part or cable for your computer, chances are you've come across the name StarTech. Founded in 1985 by Paul Seed and Ken Kalopsis, StarTech is an ISO ...

Marvell today announced its game-changing fifth generation serial advanced technology attachment (SATA 6Gb/s) solid-state drive (SSD) controller. The industry-leading Marvell 88SS1074 SATA SSD ...

Marvell introduces a new storage controller designed specifically for a high-performance hybrid of a traditional hard drive and a solid state drive. Marvel’s new controller enables an affordable ...

A standard hardware interface for storage drives. Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in data centers where large numbers of drives ...

I've been working with storage systems -- from one-off PCs to midrange Unix systems and everything in between -- since the 1980s, and in that time, there have been a tremendous number of advancements ...

Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space and ...