By bundling two SATA ports and transferring them via PCI Express, the previous SATA 6G speed was to be doubled. This creates a PCIe x2 connection. With PCIe 2.0 this corresponds to 1,000MB/s, with ...

The SATA standard has been upgraded three times to provide speed improvements over the previous generation. SATA I, SATA II and SATA III can transfer data between the motherboard and the component ...

With the lack of boards supporting more than 4 x SATA drivers, I'm wondering if I'm better to go with a cheaper motherboard and buy a PCI-E card that gives me additional SATA ports.

What is SATA? In short, it’s how almost everything storage-related connects to your motherboard. If you build your own PCs or owned a desktop or laptop in the past decade and a half, you can be ...

Locate a SATA port on the ASUS motherboard. SATA ports are semi-rectangular with an L-shaped tab in the middle. On ASUS motherboards, they are often brightly colored and found in groups of two to ...

If you want to accommodate many SATA SSDs or hard disks in your desktop PC, you will have to take a closer look when buying a motherboard in the future: Manufacturers are putting fewer and fewer ...

SATA Data Cable Connectors: The SATA data cable connector has seven conductors and has one plugged into the end port on the motherboard and the other end plugged into the back of a storage device ...

SATA is characterized by a small L-shaped connector that has been widely utilized for connecting various drives, including optical drives, hard drives, and SSDs, to motherboards.

In talking to a couple of motherboard vendors, one didn’t consider this to be a real issue, as most SATA 3.0 users wouldn’t be equipped with 500MB/s+ SSDs (I can agree, but the usage of these will ...

ASUS first showed its ASUS Z87-Deluxe/SATA Express concept motherboard at CES in January this year and it is happy to report that it has enjoyed an R&D breakthrough with the help of Intel.

The onboad SATA raid controller says it's an Intel ICH7R controller. This is on a Supermicro ...

A new platform from motherboard manufacturer Onda, the Chia D32H-D4 (Opens in a new window), offers no fewer than 32 SATA ports. These aren't standard SATA ports; they're SATA backplane connectors ...