Tag archive: SATA

Chipmaker Intel has revealed that its latest and greatest Sandy Bridge CPUs—the latest in its Intel Core line that it promoted triumphantly at CES—contain a design flaw. Intel has halted production of Sandy Bridge chips to implement a fix—all told, the solution will cost about $700 million, and Intel is scaling back its revenue forecast for the first quarter of $300 million due to reduced sales volume. The design issue impacts Serial ATA (SATA)… Read More

ASUS started shipping the first motherboards with support for the USB 3.0 and 6Gbps SATA interfaces two months ago at the beginning of November. The first mobos were targeted at enthusiasts, but soon made their way into the mainstream. Gigabyte followed suit, and shipped seven new motherboards with support for the new interfaces as well.

Toshiba has announced a significant expansion to its 1.8-inch hard drive line, adding the MKxx29GSG series of SATA drives, with the top model coming in with a whopping 250 GB of storage. The 1.8-inch HDD form factor is most-frequently seen in portable media players, camcorders, and ultra-portable computers, and significantly raises the bar for storage available to those devices. “Portable PCs continue to make the transition to the… Read More

Producing solid-state drives (SSDs) with more and more storage is old news: Samsung is moving on to making them faster. On Monday, the company revealed new 64GB 1.8- and 2.5-inch drives with a SATA II interface that can write data at 100 MBps and read it at 120 MBps – twice as fast as the SATA I interface that has been used in SSDs up to this point. Samsung used 8GB single-level-cell flash chips and its own proprietary SATA controller to… Read More

Both the OptiPlex GX520 and the OptiPlex GX620 are based on the Intel 945G chipset which means the systems can run the new 64-bit Intel processors. The more expensive OptiPlex GX620 has an option to come with dual-core processors and can come available with the new Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 operating system preinstalled. Other differences between the two systems include optional 128MB or 256MB ATI Radeon video cards on the… Read More

Quote from the review: “The first generation of the Serial ATA standard has been around for some time now. In the beginning, people questioned if the new technology would even catch on. Today it can be fairly difficult to find a motherboard that does not support onboard SATA. The specifications for second generation SATA hard drives were officially published during the Intel Developer Forum in Barcelona, Spain last April. The second… Read More

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 product to feature an integrated Serial ATA connection, enabling OEMs and System Integrators to leverage the benefits of Serial ATA. Serial ATA, which extends bandwidth to 150 MB/sec, is an evolutionary… Read More

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 product to feature an integrated Serial ATA connection, enabling OEMs and System… Read More

Alienware indicated that Seagate's SATA drives are being rapidly adopted by PC game enthusiasts and other trendsetters. Alienware's award-winning Area-51 is one of the first PCs to feature Seagate SATA hard drives along with Intel's new 875P chipset (code-named Canterwood) and a 3GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor. Alienware is a favored choice among hard-core gamers and leading PC game developers for system performance.… Read More

Maxtor 250GB and 200GB SATA Ultra Series kits will be available on retail shelves mid-June. “Demand from gamers, digital video professionals and hobbyists building home computers for MP3 audio convinced us that our super-capacity Maxtor® DiamondMax® drives needed to be available inretail,” stated Anna Jen, senior director of retail product marketing at Maxtor. “By offering the highest capacity Serial ATA drives, Maxtor… Read More

Tests were done in both Intel and Maxtor labs. OEMs, solution providers and system builders now have a variety of pre-tested SATA combinations for building PCs, RAID arrays and near-line storage applications. Included in many 875P platforms is Intel RAID technology that supports high-performance RAID arrays for SATA hard disk drives. Maxtor's SATA hard drives will be demonstrated in select cities in the United States during the Intel… Read More