The new version will include more--as yet unspecified--features and a faster transfer speed. The upgrade is planned for the second half of the year, with products available in 2003.

Serial ATA is nice, but the advantage of smaller, more flexible cabling isn't advantageous if a parallel ATA cable is still needed for the optical drive. For a typical system with a one hard drive ...

Two years after the debut of Serial ATA, this technology has continued to excite as well as frustrate vendors adopting it. Here's one vendor's view and expectations for this technology's next ...

A pair of Serial ATA products from FirmTek—an adapter and a hot-swappable external enclosure—are making their debuts at Macworld Expo this week. The SeriTek/1SM2 is a Type II 32-bit CardBus ...

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 ...

Serial ATA hard drive owners now no longer actually need a Serial ATA compatible computer to use their drives. Novac has introduced the “SATA HDD Connect Kit USB,” a cable for connecting naked ...

Problem: Second Generation Serial ATA (SATA II) hard drives are not detected when connected to a VIA or SIS Serial ATA controller. These First Generation Serial ATA (SATA I) controllers include ...

Addonics Technologies today announced a pair of Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive kits, which can transform any SATA drive into a hot-swappable, removable or external drive solution. The new Combo Hard ...

Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and others propose CE-ATA, a new interface for miniature hard drives used in consumer electronics.

SERIAL ATA HARD DRIVES: FACTS and FIGURES \ > Software-compatible with parallel ATA hard drives >Smaller-diameter cable, up to 1 meter long, for easier routing and air flow ...

An industry initiative for Serial ATA II was announced this week, so it's natural to wonder where Serial ATA 1.0 is, now that it's been some six months since the new drive specification was ...

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