The Intel P965 chipset, code-named Broadwater, is signaling the end of the road for the outdated parallel ATA (PATA) interface. Instead, Intel is opting to exclusively push the more modern Serial ATA ...

The EZ Upgrade notebook hard-drive-upgrade kit uses a dual SATA/PATA interface. Features include a high-speed 2.0 hard-drive enclosure with USB 1.1 compatibility, a USB cable, and the vendor’s upgrade ...

For most of the last 15 years, the most popular hard drive standard in existence for desktop workstations has been the ATA standard. Unless you haven’t cracked the case of a computer since before IBM ...

Santa Clara, Calif.—Intel Corp. launched the Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive (SSD), one of the tiniest in the industry aimed at handheld mobile devices. The devices comes in 2- and 4-Gbyte capacities, ...

Active Media Products has unveiled a new SSD for small devices that use a ZIF PATA interface. The new SSD is a 1.8-inch PATA ZIF SSD that offers up to 128GB of storage. If you are racking your brain ...

Intel Corporation announced its latest entry into the solid-state drive market with the Intel Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive (SSD), one of the tiniest in the industry aimed at handheld mobile devices.

It's not often that hard drives break new ground. Sure, Western Digital's 1TB monster was an exception to the rule, but in most cases, each new HDD we see is a logical successor to the ones that came ...

Parallel ATA (IDE) uses 40 pins, not 26. 26 was for floppies. But it's a standard 40-pin "header" connector. Sometimes called "IDC". CF cards have the PATA interface on a 50-pin connector. I don't ...

While the CompactFlash Association scoots along at a maximum transfer rate of 167MB per second under its just released CF6.0 specification, Sandisk, Sony, and Nikon are already looking to the future.