Apple’s staff gets a little testy when challenged regarding the company’s reliance on parallel ATA (or just plain ATA) for its Xserve servers and Xserve RAID storage arrays. ATA is unquestionably long ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Agere Systems Inc. announced Wednesday (Nov. 13) that it has developed the disk drive IC industry's first totally integrated serial ATA controller for hard-disk drives (HDDs). The ...

Just picked up a Tekram mobo that has a ATA/33 controller. A friend sold me a WD ATA/100 drive cheap. I know that if I connect the ATA/100 drive to the ATA/33 controller the drive will default to the ...

"Parallel ATA will go away," predicts Eric Schou, product marketing manager at Maxtor, based in Milpitas, Calif. "That is the reality that is going to happen." But it's not just the vendors who are ...

ServerWorks Corp. on Wednesday announced it is expanding into the storage controller market with a new line of Serial ATA controllers. The Santa Clara, Calif. server chipset vendor is sampling a ...

3ware, Mountain View, Calif., unveiled four-, eight- and 12-port RAID controllers based on the Serial ATA specifications. Meanwhile, Adaptec unveiled four RAID controllers featuring Ultra320 SCSI ...

Self crowned as the industry's highest performance, standalone ATA flash-disk controllers, the SST55LD019x devices feature command support for ATA/ATAPI-5, extensive security, and multi-word DMA. They ...