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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
