Neowin News Feed for: Serial

Serial eBay fraudster jailed for two years

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:23:17 +0000

A low-rent recidivist con man who targeted eBay customers was jailed for two years on Tuesday. Phillip Shortman, 20, from Cwmbran near Newport in south Wales, was sent to a young offenders' institution following a... Read more...

Infineon, Hitachi Prepare for Serial ATA Speed Boost

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:33:28 +0000

Infineon Technologies AG, a leading semiconductor developer, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a leading producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Friday unveiled their new read/write channel system-on-chip solutions for HDDs that can be combined... Read more...

Nvidia "Patches" Serial ATA Issue For the Third Time

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:33:05 +0000

Nvidia Corp., a leading chipset developer, and EVGA, a supplier of graphics cards and mainboards, have released more BIOS versions that should correct the already well-known issues with Serial ATA storage devices and mainboards powered... Read more...

Intel Ignites Serial ATA-300

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:17:56 +0000

Faster HDD Interconnect Brought to Life The Serial ATA Working Group announced Wednesday two specification development milestones at the Intel Developer Forum in Barcelona, Spain. One centers on doubling the signalling speed... Read more...

Intel says Serial ATA signal speed doubled

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:08:03 +0000

CHIP GIANT Intel said that future specs of Serial ATA will double its signalling speed and give it additional cable and connectors. The spec for the S-ATA signalling speed at 3Gbps is now complete, while... Read more...

Serial ATA starts to filter into enterprise

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:33:40 +0000

MARKET RESEARCH firm iSuppli said that Serial ATA is beginning to make inroads into the corporate marketplace. But such systems may only represent one third of enterprise class data systems even by 2007, iSuppli cautioned.... Read more...

Fujitsu puts Serial ATA into notebook drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:36:46 +0000

In what it claims to be an industry first, Fujitsu has unveiled a series of hard drives for notebooks based on the Serial ATA specification, speeding up data transfer and simplifying connectivity. Fujitsu has announced... Read more...

Promise introduces new hot-swap Serial ATA Drive enclosure

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:36:49 +0000

Promise Technology, the originator and leading supplier of ATA RAID solutions, announced last week the availability of the SuperSwap 1100, a hot-swap drive enclosure for Serial ATA (SATA)/150 drives. The SuperSwap 1100 enclosure transforms a... Read more...

Nvidia Serial ATA south bridge delayed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:22:40 +0000

WE HAVE ALREADY reported about Nvidia's new south bridges, the ones that are to include Serial ATA and Gigabit LAN. While Nvidia's Serial ATA was supposed to be available much earlier, in late Q3, have... Read more...

Hitachi intros first 250GB desktop Serial ATA drive

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:08:05 +0000

THE DIVISION OF HITACHI that took over IBM's hard drive division said it has released a 250GB Serial ATA unit today. The 3.5-inch Deskstar 7K250 uses 80GB+ platters combined to create 250GB, that's a quarter... Read more...

Serial ATA II is here already

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:43:31 +0000

THE FIRST Serial ATA devices are only just starting to make themselves known. Only a very brave motherboard manufacturer would dare launch a product with SATA as the only drive interface. Which makes it a... Read more...

Adaptec preps Serial SCSI

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:51:26 +0000

Adaptec Inc. has started work on a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface in conjunction with several hard drive makers to help push the SCSI successor along. Adaptec is working with Fujitsu, Maxtor, Seagate and Hitachi... Read more...

New Kits Upgrade Hard Drives to Serial ATA

Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:47:17 +0000

Addonics launches its Serial ATA product lineup this week, including a conversion adapter that makes existing parallel ATA (commonly called IDE) and ATAPI drives compatible with the new standard. The $35 converter--available next... Read more...

Via confirms single chip Serial ATA RAID controller

Steven Parker — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:47:09 +0000

CHIP FIRM Via has managed to integrate Serial ATA (S-ATA), RAID and a parallel ATA-133 interface in one semiconductor. The VT 6420 includes two S-ATA channels for four devices, while the Parallel ATA channel supports... Read more...

Seagate leads in drive to Serial ATA storage

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:38:17 +0000

MOST NEW MOTHERBOARDS will have Serial ATA connectors during the course of this year, but hard drive manufacturers seem a little slow to jump on the mobo bandwagon. Seagate looks like it will be first... Read more...

Storage Tech 2k3: Serial ATA

Ross Dundas — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:13:29 +0000

Serial ATA looks set to bring about the biggest change in storage technology in the past 10 years. Take a long look at the IDE ribbon cables in your pc because you might not be... Read more...

3Ware Escalade 8500-4 Serial ATA/150 RAID Controller

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:53:44 +0000

Just caught this huge review of the controller at GamePC. Those who follow the storage industry know that 3Ware is one of the most respected and well-liked companies in the industry. They have... Read more...

A real look at serial ATA

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:03:26 +0000

Well, Tom's a lucky chappy. Some how, he's managed to blag a Serial ATA Western Digital Hard-drive, a RocketRAID 1520 Serial ATA control from Highpoint, an ABit IT7 MAX2 (onboard serial ata connectors), and a... Read more...

IWILL Serial ATA Solution

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:16:41 +0000

IWILL sent us [Tweakers Australia] some info regarding their latest Serial ATA solution, here's a snip: The most innovative motherboard manufacturer, IWILL Corporation, shows its superior competence to support the latest storage... Read more...

Seagate and Intel demonstrate Serial ATA

Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:57:12 +0000

Thanks Brad Maher for emailing us. Seagate and Intel today demonstrated the industry's first native Serial ATA hard drive implementation, at PC Expo in New York. The companies connected a new Barracuda ATA V hard... Read more...

Serial ATA!!!

Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:52:01 +0000

This is very exciting stuff- and atlast its being implemented! Good job adaptec! MILPITAS, Calif., February 22, 2002 - Adaptec, Inc. a global leader in storage access solutions, today announced... Read more...

Intel to kill floppy drives, serial ports next year

Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:30:39 +0000

Intel is finally inciting the death of the floppy drive and is calling on PC manufacturers big and small to stop supplying the once-capacious 1.44MB removable drive in the latter half of 2002. ... Read more...