I broke the data connector on one of my SATA drives. It turns out that the gold contacts you see are not physically attached to the plastic sleeve above them and I twisted the cable juuuuust the right ...

Unfortunately, outside of using expansion cards, there's not a lot you can do if you wish to add a few more SATA drives to the storage mix. If you're like me and don't wish to outright replace the ...

You don't need a jumper pin on your SATA drive for desktops or servers manufactured after 2002. For older equipment, you can use a jumper on the pins to limit its data transfer rate so it can work ...

We had a recent incident in our lab where SATA 6Gb/s performance inexplicably dropped going from one motherboard to the next. In theory, both boards should have offered the same performance on the ...

When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...

With due respect, It's not looking good for that drive. Most of the solutions are non-ideal and the part you're looking at won't do a bit of good. If you have the missing part, you may be able to rig ...