If you’ve owned a desktop PC or laptop in the past decade and a half, you can be confident it was a Serial ATA (SATA) compatible piece of hardware. Whether it was a hard drive (HDD), a solid ...

Because of what SSDs are, solid-state drives (SSDs) are a core component of any modern PC, whether it’s a traditional SATA ...

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the ...

IDE and SATA are two interfaces used to connect storage devices (such as hard drives) to a computer’s system bus. SATA is an abbreviation for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (or Serial ATA), ...