Tag archive: ATA

Jodi Foster is still hopeful that Contact, the 1997 film she starred in, may one day come true. The two-time Oscar award winner is among 2,557 donors who helped SETI (the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) resume its hunt for intelligent life in the stars. SETI had to halt its operations in April after federal and California budget cuts dried up its funding. The organization has announced that it exceeded its goal of $200,000 and has… Read More

From the press release: Samsung offers a complete family of Serial ATA II hard drives featuring an 80GB platter including its new 80GB HD080HJ ($93 estimated street price), 120GB HD120IJ ($120) and 160GB HD160JJ ($150). Samsung's new Serial ATA II hard drives support native 3.0GB per second (Gbps) I/O transaction capabilities in addition to Serial ATA Native Command Queuing. The 3.0 Gbps speed doubles the 1.5 Gbps data transfer rate… Read More

Quote from the review: “ALTHOUGH SCSI DRIVES have long boasted higher reliability, longer warranties, faster spindle speeds, and generally better performance than IDE and Serial ATA drives, SCSI storage density has been one step behind. Today's largest Serial ATA drives offer 400GB of storage capacity, and while these exotic monsters are rare, 200-250GB SATA drives are widely available for as low as $130. In the SCSI world,… Read More

The Serial ATA Working Group announced today two specification development milestones at the Intel Developer Forum here. One centers on doubling the signaling speed for Serial ATA, the other on new cable and connector solutions to support additional applications and usage models. The specification for the second generation Serial ATA signaling speed – 3Gbps – has been completed and the release candidate of that… Read More

Demonstrating its technical leadership in the emerging Serial ATA (SATA) market, Plextor Corp. today announced the PX-712SA DVD±R/RW drive with support for high-speed 12X DVD+R and 8X DVD-R recording. With the PX-712SA, users can record a full DVD in less than 6 minutes at a burst rate of 16.5 MB per second, allowing them to create, edit, and share customized DVDs faster than ever before. The new internal drive is the first Plextor… Read More

Quote from the review at Monkey Review: “Unfortunately the ATA100/133 standard has a new format to contend with. Introducing Serial ATA drives. While the standard/format has taken some time to catch on from it's early days it is making it's way into the home user market. Many motherboard manufactures have included the support for SATA while still offering support for ATA. Today we're going to be looking at… Read More

Quote from the article at Adrian's Rojak Pot: “Just what is Serial ATA? How does it differ from Parallel ATA? What does it mean to us? So many questions.Today, David Du takes a look at Serial ATA and gives us the low-down on this new technology. If you are confused about Serial ATA, this is the article for you!” Read the full review

This retail kit brings enterprise-class reliability and speed to those end users who prefer premium components for their state-of-the-art computer systems. WD Raptor Enterprise SATA hard drives, which were introduced earlier this year for business applications, are the world's fastest Serial ATA drives and feature specifications of: 10,000 RPM; 5.2milliseconds (ms) average seek time; 1.2 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure); and… Read More