How to Connect a SATA Hard Disk As a Slave. Adding a secondary SATA drive to your office computer is a great way to expand your data storage capacity and increase security at the same time.

The dock would be more secure than just a SATA cable. With just a cable I'd worry about shifting on the connector. A cradle will keep it in place. Just my two cents.

Components of SATA Hard Drives. Manufacturers seal hard drives in hermetic rooms to avoid any contamination by particles of dust, a single one of which can completely destroy a hard drive. If you ...

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.

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).

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NVMe drives connect directly to your CPU through PCIe lanes, bypassing older SATA connections. This eliminates the ...

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.

The SATA interface that you'll find on all current hard drives has a maximum bandwidth of 600MB/s. That's perfect for a hard drive's average read speed of 150MB/s, but no match for the best SSD ...

SATA 3.0 has arrived and Seagate was the first through the door. Let's have a look at the new Barracuda XT and how it performs.

The SATA connection itself is much less prone than UltraATA to interference from electromagnetic fields and cable-crosstalk, which means faster and more reliable data throughput.

But now I have a longer-term worry, namely that without that plastic shell around the connector the power connection is going to start falling off, pulling loose, or otherwise causing problems.