Plug a SATA power cable into the long L-shaped connector on the back of your hard drive. One end of the cable should be connected to your computer's power supply, and the other is a black plug ...

With due respect, It's not looking good for that drive. Most of the solutions are non-ideal and the part you're looking at won't do a bit of good. If you have the missing part, you may be able to ...

The SATA data-transfer standard has served the industry well, but hard drive maker WD has a product that demonstrates the shift to the faster PCI Express tech. Days are numbered for decade-old ...

The outermost part of a hard drive consists of its connector ports. On SATA, or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, hard drives, these include an electrical port to power the hard drive from ...

Hard drives are available in two basic flavors: SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) and IDE (integrated drive electronics). IDE drives use a 40-pin connection (look for the wide, flat cable).

The venerable IDE interface, the standard connection for hard disks and optical drives for the past 25 years, ... The new SATA technology doesn't change the drives themselves all that much.

Of course, it's unlikely your current lumbering hard drive would see any advantage over a SATA connection, although with Seagate recently announcing its MACH.2 dual-actuator hard drive with SSD ...

Serial ATA hard drives are on the verge of pushing the legacy parallel hard-drive business into oblivion, and upcoming changes in SATA technology will help continue its momentum.

But the performance gap narrowed considerably when the latest VelociRaptor–one of the very few hard drives today with a 600-gbps SATA connection–went up against another SATA-600 drive, from ...