Wow, my first post. Where to start, SO many questions.<br><br>Let's begin with my IT hopes and dreams:<br><br>I am an (amateur) hardware geek and have been trying to work out the "best" setup for me ...

SATA is a serial link high-speed interface that Apple uses on the Power Mac G5 for its internal hard disk drive connectivity. Devices communicating over SATA can transmit data up to 150MB/sec.

I have a bunch of SAS drives that were in disk shelves or rack mount servers that have been decommissioned due to power usage and noise. I'd like to still use the drives though, since they are at disk ...

Designed for enterprise storage applications, the SiI 3124 serial ATA (SATA) host controller is a 64-bit, 133-MHz PCI-X to four-port device that is available in two pin-compatible versions. The SiI ...

Port Multipliers can combine up to 5 SATA hard drives into one eSATA connection. The 5 drives can be set up as individual drives, as RAID set or with JBOD to become one large hard drive depending on ...

The new Adaptec Series 6E RAID controller is currently targeting a storage and system builder market that currently relies on software-based RAID controllers, said Tom Flageollet, director of ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. In the first part of this article, I ...