USB is a glorious thing. It allows you to hook up a wide variety of products ranging from temperature monitoring equipment to keyboards and mice to headphones to drives and far beyond. Today I’m ...

Seagate plans to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives by the end of the year and will focus exclusively on SATA-based products. Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to announce such plans ...

RAIDON announces its RAID ready SSD Enclosure with IDE interface this July. RAIDON RAID ready SSD Enclosure is well-known for its unique two replacement CF card slots and two RAID mode choices which ...

So I screwed up and ordered the wrong external drive enclosure from OWC. I wanted the enclosure that accepts SATA drives, but instead I ordered the one that takes IDE/ATA drives.

The SDCS consists of an aluminum drive enclosure about the size of a VHS tape and a 5.25-inch aluminum drive cradle. Cradles come in two versions: IDE and Universal Storage Interface Bus. Enclosures ...

Some drives can also be faster thanks to the special SCSI features (command queuing) or just by being the latest generation high end drives. As high end computers usually require best performance, the ...