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 ...

Apple’s staff gets a little testy when challenged regarding the company’s reliance on parallel ATA (or just plain ATA) for its Xserve servers and Xserve RAID storage arrays. ATA is unquestionably long ...

For a number of years, HDD interface technologies have been dominated by two parallel standards, divided into distinct market segments. Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA, also known as ATA/ATAPI or ...

Serial ATA is nice, but the advantage of smaller, more flexible cabling isn't advantageous if a parallel ATA cable is still needed for the optical drive. For a typical system with a one hard drive ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

"Parallel ATA will go away," predicts Eric Schou, product marketing manager at Maxtor, based in Milpitas, Calif. "That is the reality that is going to happen." But it's not just the vendors who are ...

For most of the last 15 years, the most popular hard drive standard in existence for desktop workstations has been the ATA standard. Unless you haven’t cracked the case of a computer since before IBM ...

The volume of choices in storage systems continues to expand in direct reaction to the growth in digital media content. Whether that media is housed on mission critical high-performance storage, in a ...

One of the big advantages of Linux is you don't need all that much buck to get maximum bang. With the advent of serial ATA disk drives and controllers, I thought we might undertake this approach in ...

In 2003, the storage industry has taken major steps in transitioning from a decades-old interface technology to one that will potentially revolutionize the way new hard disk drives (HDDs) are designed ...