You don't have to worry about which serial ATA port you use to connect a device to a motherboard: all the ports run at the same speed. However, every motherboard that supports SATA supports a ...

SATA disk drives are normally in a one drive/one SATA controller port configuration. But in recent years, a new approach, known as the port multiplier, has extended this connectivity to multiple ...

ASRock has unveiled its new X99-based motherboards, with one of the top-end boards being the new X99 Extreme 11 motherboard which features an insane 18 SATA ports. The ASRock X99 Extreme 11 ...

I was thinking of adding this enclosure to my Linux NAS box at some point in the future. The product comes with a PCI eSATA RAID card that support the two 4x port multiplier backplane in the enclosure ...

Just curious, which would be faster in day to day usage? I can only assume the internally mobo attached SATA port would smoke any external 3.1 device? Only reason I ask is the case I am considering ...

If you are looking to upgrade your Windows or Linux Ubuntu PC you might be interested to know that QNAP has unveiled their latest expansion card in the form of the QXP-1600eS-A1164 a quad-port SATA ...

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) has become the dominant interface for internal storage in desktops, notebooks and consumer electronics devices. Demands for capacity are on the rise, ...

The most important information to take away from this feature is whether or not it’s beneficial for a motherboard to have SATA 6Gbps ports. If the on-board SATA 6Gbps ports tend to be fast, they will ...

With the last few chipset releases from Intel, there has been a lack of SATA III capable ports for connecting drives. To get around this, the most common solution was to add a PCI Express card capable ...

Pretty much every motherboard we’ve looked at over the past six months has had at least a pair of SATA 6Gbps ports, but it was only when we finally saw a fast SATA 6Gbps SSD that we were in a position ...