When 2.5-inch SATA SSDs finally became affordable, the popularity of hard drives naturally saw a huge dip. Switching from a hard drive to a SATA SSD promised an instant boost to system ...

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 ...

Optimized for gaming, this SATA drive delivers reliable read-write speeds of around 500 MB per second; power consumption is also super low, drawing just two watts when active. It's a breeze to ...