Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space and ...

So I'm upgrading my hard drives from IDE to SATA and want to do a fresh install of Windows XP on the SATA hard drive.<BR><BR>Boot from the XP installation disk, and it doesn't recognize my SATA ...

Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

Make sure you plug into a SATA 6Gbps/SATA 3.0 port if you’re installing a solid state drive. Otherwise, performance may be constrained. Once you’re all set up, close your computer and start it up. You ...