Hard disk drives connect to a motherboard using either a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment connector or an Integrated Drive Electronics connector. SATA drives are newer than IDE, so older ...

I have a PATA HDD (/boot, /, /swap, /home), a PATA DVD , and an SATA HDD (/data) in my home Linux server.

Though there are plenty of whatever-to-USB adapters out there, this critter just tickles our fancy with its extraordinary utility. The SATA / CF / IDE to USB 2.0 Bridge Adapter enables owners to ...

USB is a glorious thing. It allows you to hook up a wide variety of products ranging from temperature monitoring equipment to keyboards and mice to headphones to drives and far beyond. Today I’m ...

I am using a 2 terabyte 'external' drive for backups. I was using a docking station but to drag and drop all the files to it was looking like forever to get things done. So I took it out of the ...

Most current motherboards (MOBOs) have AHCI enabled in UEFI or BIOS by default. However, some older motherboards may have IDE enabled by default instead. In this post, we are going to learn how to ...