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One cable was an expensive Adaptec SATA cable that came with a RAID card, another a cheapo 36-inch (just short of the maximum length of 3.3 feet while another tested was a tiny pig-tail SATA cable ...

That ribbon cable end looks a LOT like the cable they used to use in their old convertible tabletPC 2710p line. Mind you, the first one use a PATA ribbon cable. They revved it to SATA to tiny ...

Available in Japan from Elecom, the “nanoSSD” comes in 8GB and 16GB capacities and includes an auxiliary power cable, just in case. Read speeds are 75MB/second and write speeds are 30MB/second ...

Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend), a global leader in flash memory products, is proud to introduce its newest industrial memory solution ¡V a high-speed Serial ATA Flash Module.

SATA was first introduced in 2000, replacing the aged PATA (Parallel ATA) ribbon cables. It was revised in 2003 and again in 2004 and 2008, bringing SATA to version three, commonly referred to as ...

USB 3.1 Gen 2 is 10 Gbps, normal SATA is 6 Gbps. There are some other issues with overhead and stuff... And you'll need an NVME drive in the USB 3.1 Gen 2 port to take advantage of that speed but ...

The new SSD U100 and iSSD i100 drives can transfer data to and from a PC at roughly twice the speed of the standard SanDisk P4 drives they are intended to replace.

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the ...