If you're getting into the storage game, even on a locally-attached basis, there are a number of options from which to pick when it comes to the way that you will connect your storage. In this article ...

Apple’s staff gets a little testy when challenged regarding the company’s reliance on parallel ATA (or just plain ATA) for its Xserve servers and Xserve RAID storage arrays. ATA is unquestionably long ...

For a number of years, HDD interface technologies have been dominated by two parallel standards, divided into distinct market segments. Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA, also known as ATA/ATAPI or ...

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 ...

ATA/100 cables are 80 conductor parallel cables. If you compare an 80 conductor cable to a standard 40 conductor one, the wires on the 40 conductor cable are much thicker (40 conductor goes up to 33).

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

"Parallel ATA will go away," predicts Eric Schou, product marketing manager at Maxtor, based in Milpitas, Calif. "That is the reality that is going to happen." But it's not just the vendors who are ...

For most of the last 15 years, the most popular hard drive standard in existence for desktop workstations has been the ATA standard. Unless you haven’t cracked the case of a computer since before IBM ...

Serial ATA is a new technology that is at last ready for prime time. The question now is which arena it will play in. SATA is an evolution of the parallel ATA technology (known first as IDE and than ...

In 2003, the storage industry has taken major steps in transitioning from a decades-old interface technology to one that will potentially revolutionize the way new hard disk drives (HDDs) are designed ...