Recently one of my SSDs started acting up; it's the disk I use only for games. It could write at speeds I'd come to expect (500MB/s), but when opening a game, things would slow down to an impossible ...

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 ...

One of the complaints users had about SATA when it first launched, was the connectors. Yes, the new cable design was great for airflow and plugging the connectors in was a doddle. However, they did ...

Reason for asking: Two drive cables came with a new motherboard. Embossed on the clip end is "SATA 6 GB/sec". One of the two ends of these, however, has the connector bent at 90°, and for reason of ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. We were recently asked if the SF3700, LSI's latest flash controller, supports SATA Express and fired ...

A new air-gap cyberattack technique has entered the frame. The researchers are referring to it as “SATAn” and it basically involves using ordinary SATA cables to transmit data wirelessly. Security ...

It's a well-known fact that solid-state drives (SSDs) are faster and superior to old mechanical hard drive disks, which are more commonly called HDDs (via Enterprise Storage Platform). An archaic ...

I am not a neat person. You need only to see my desk to realize that. However, when it comes to my PC case, I keep the cables organized. There are some good reasons to do that–and they have nothing to ...