When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The volume of choices in storage systems continues to expand in direct reaction to the growth in ...

Serial ATA, or SATA, is a relatively new storage technology that is now being adopted in computers. It is the successor to Parallel ATA. SATA allows for faster transfers between the hard disk and the ...

To support drives other than hard drives (e.g., ZIP or CD-ROM drives), the ATA standard had to be expanded under the name ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface), because the ATA instruction set was never ...

Intel's P965 chipset and Microsoft's Vista operating system are expected to speed up adoption of SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) and displace ATAPI (ATA packet interface) as the ...

Milpitas, Calif. — A serial ATA (SATA) core that was recently added to LSI Logic Corp.'s CoreWare IP portfolio offers designers a storage interface that can easily be integrated into cell-based ASIC ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) has been the most successful peripheral interface in the history of PCs. USB 2.0 is poised to succeed the first generation and offers particular benefit to the mass ...

What are PATA and SATA? In this guide we will be discussing the differences between Parallel ATA and Serial ATA, both are types of interface for disk drives in the average desktop PC. Firstly, a ...