Archive for the 'Storage' Category

SATA to IDE: What does it do?

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Our SATA to IDE adapter converts your IDE drive interface into a SATA drive interface. The only problem with this conversion is that it slows down your SATA drive to IDE speeds (If speed is an issue, you may want to just install a Serial ATA controller card). If you have a laptop, then [...]

Driver Updates

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

If you ever find that your hardware is acting funny, then try updating the driver. If your device uses a native driver, then you will most likely be unsuccessful in finding an update. The best two sources for drivers are the company you bought the driver from, and the manufacturer of the device. You [...]

USB & Firewire

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

I had an interesting conversation with an engineer over the phone today concerning the differences between USB and Firewire. It started with a discussion on transfer speed. Some of the stats I’ve seen put Firewire 400 at 400 Mbps, and USB 2.0 around 480 Mbps, but this engineer informed me that even though USB 2.0’s [...]

IDE interfaces and HD Dimensions

Monday, August 1st, 2005

IDE Hard Drives are sometimes classified by their dimensions. For example, most desktop computers have 3.5 inch Hard Drives, older desktop computers have 5.25 inch drives. Laptops typically have 2.5 inch drives(some do have 1.8 inch drives) while ipods have 1.8 inch drives.
These dimensions are not completely accurate. 3.5 inch drives are [...]