Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

Depending on the model, a Compaq Presario might use a SATA hard drive or an IDE drive. The former is found in most models released after 2003, and the latter in earlier PCs. Replacing an IDE drive is ...

In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB ...

Western Digital (WD) today released a portable external drive for Macs and a dual-disk external desktop backup drive that it claims is faster than a solid-state drive (SSD). WD announced the My Book ...