PATA ribbon cables take up a lot of space and ... decreasing drain on the PSU and decreasing the heat output of the system as a whole; important for those large RAID arrays and allows greater ...

If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost certainly requires a SATA drive, which began replacing the slower PATA standard in 2003. But if you have an older notebook, or you want to be ...

When you start up your computer, the BIOS scans the memory and checks the video adapter before searching the hard drives for a bootable operating system. If you have a misconfigured hard drive or ...