Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

So I'm trying to replace a Seagate 200gb with a Western Digital 500gb WD5000KS because I only have 2 SATA slots and the first is my system drive (also a Seagate 200gb). Whenever I try to plug in the ...

I'm trying to install Windows XP to my new SATA hard drive. After figuring out the whole F6 thing, I got it to start installing properly. After copying files and the first reboot, however, it tries to ...

Make sure you plug into a SATA 6Gbps/SATA 3.0 port if you’re installing a solid state drive. Otherwise, performance may be constrained. Once you’re all set up, close your computer and start it up. You ...

Parallel ATA, or PATA, hard drives and Serial ATA, or SATA, drives have virtually the same physical characteristics and platter speeds. However, the Serial ATA bus supports much faster data throughput ...