DigiTimes reports that industry sources are expecting SATA to replace standard IDE as the format for optical disk drives in 2007. SATA has been extremely popular the last few years as the connection ...

The Intel P965 chipset, code-named Broadwater, is signaling the end of the road for the outdated parallel ATA (PATA) interface. Instead, Intel is opting to exclusively push the more modern Serial ATA ...

We’ve seen glimmers on the horizon for some time now, but the https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Serial+ATA+International+Organization.html (SATA-IO) has finally made ...

So I just hooked up my optical drive for the first time since moving to Windows 10. It's probably been about 18 months since I last used it, and I purchased it back in 2009. I ripped a new music CD I ...

Supporting the rapid transition to serial ATA storage, the OXU921S from Oxford Semiconductor claims to be the world's first bridge chip to provide transparent data transfer between a USB2.0 port and ...

In case you haven't noticed, very few netbooks have ever shipped with an optical drive. You've either had to get a more expensive ultraportable, a thin-and-light or an external ODD in order to have ...

Combination CD-R/RW and DVD drive attains 7,800-Kbyte/s CD recording speed Claiming the fastest CD recording speed of any combination CD-R/RW and DVD optical disc drive, the SM-352 gives system ...

Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) have headed sharply upwards over the past two quarters. Meanwhile, on the spinning disk front, SAS hard disk drive (HDD) prices increased in price and ...