Hard disk drives connect to a motherboard using either a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment connector or an Integrated Drive Electronics connector. SATA drives are newer than IDE, so older ...

Most current motherboards (MOBOs) have AHCI enabled in UEFI or BIOS by default. However, some older motherboards may have IDE enabled by default instead. In this post, we are going to learn how to ...

USB is a glorious thing. It allows you to hook up a wide variety of products ranging from temperature monitoring equipment to keyboards and mice to headphones to drives and far beyond. Today I’m ...

Like Westley in the "Princess Bride" sometimes hard drives are only mostly dead. If you have a drive that appears kaput, you can sometimes retrieve the data off of it using a USB to SATA/IDE connector ...

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Essentially, the Standard SATA AHCI Controller driver, just like every other device driver, is also important since the hard disk is connected to your computer through this driver. The SATA AHCI ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...