Sonnet Technologies introduced on Thursday the Tempo Bridge, an adapter that enables users to install a 3.5-inch parallel ATA drive in a Power Mac G5, which is only compatible with Serial ATA drives.

According to this KB article, if you want to use any of your old hard drives in a new G5 using a Serial to Parallel adapter, you're out of luck. Now I am not getting a G5 anytime soon so this does not ...

Serial-ATA add-in cards should be plentiful by the end of this year, but the schedules for Serial-ATA integration in PC, workstation, and server core logic are nebulous at best (see “Controller ...

Joni Clark, product marketing manager at Seagate Technology and marketing chairperson for the Serial ATA International Organization, a nonprofit industry group developing SATA specifications, said ...

Apple’s staff gets a little testy when challenged regarding the company’s reliance on parallel ATA (or just plain ATA) for its Xserve servers and Xserve RAID storage arrays. ATA is unquestionably long ...

Serial ATA is nice, but the advantage of smaller, more flexible cabling isn't advantageous if a parallel ATA cable is still needed for the optical drive. For a typical system with a one hard drive ...

A consortium of companies wants to build on the progress of the Serial ATA hard drive interface in PCs by creating a similar offering for consumer electronics devices. The companies, which include ...

In 2003, the storage industry has taken major steps in transitioning from a decades-old interface technology to one that will potentially revolutionize the way new hard disk drives (HDDs) are designed ...

When it comes to storage, the newly unveiled MacBook Air offers an 80GB, 4,200-rpm Parallel ATA hard drive as part of its standard configuration. However, that’s not the only option—would-be MacBook ...

The arrays, which use the same ATA hard drives used in most desktop PCs, are also finding their way into disk-to-disk backup solutions as customers look to speed their backup and recovery processes ...

When it comes to storage, the newly unveiled MacBook Air offers an 80GB, 4,200-rpm Parallel ATA hard drive as part of its standard configuration. However, that’s not the only option — would-be MacBook ...