If there's one thing we're crying out for, it's another netbook connector standard. Happily the SATA-IO working group have delivered just that in the shape of mini-SATA (or mSATA), a new low-profile ...

Plummeting prices and a super-slick user experience have brought solid-state drives (SSDs) into sharper focus than ever before. As we have repeated ad nauseam over recent weeks, it is now possible to ...

mSATA and PCI Express Mini-Card are sharing the same physical connector type with minor pin definition modification. Automatic card detection and signal multiplexing function between SATA interface ...

A) Do 2.5" laptop SSDs use "Mini SATA"? B) Is 2.5" SATA(as in, the SATA on a 2.5" drive), different dimension connector to 3.5" SATA(as in, SATA on a 3.5" drive)? C) Are all mSATA(micro SATA) and all ...

[Trucki] wanted to upgrade the internal storage on his JooJoo. There’s an mSATA connector inside but devices that use that protocol are hard to come by and when you do they’ll cost you and arm and a ...

A new platform is only as good as the support surrounding it, and now Gigabyte is giving Intel a little of that with a new Z68 motherboard. But it's not just "yet another Z68 mainboard." This is being ...

C.C. Wu, Director of Embedded Flash Div. and Vice President, Innodisk Pick up an mPCIe card and mSATA card and you’d be forgiven for thinking these are the same format. Possessing an identical ...

Over the past few years a number of companies have released tiny sticks that you can plug into a TV to run Android or Linux on a big screen. Thanks to low-power ARM processors, these little sticks are ...

Samsung is beefing up ultrabook storage space and speed with the first 1TB solid-state drive (SSD) in the miniature mSATA form factor. Samsung has been taking the SSD market by storm recently, and the ...

The new Mac Pro is a highly modular computer, making it ripe for upgrades and on-site servicing. But, the connector used for the built-in storage suggests replacements may have to be bought from Apple ...

You’ve heard of SATA. It’s the technology used for the majority of today’s hard drives and people generally like it. But SATA wasn’t designed for tiny portables. That’s why the guys behind SATA are ...