Broadcom announces itsRAIDCore BC4000 Series RAID host bus adapter (HBA). It's billed by the company as a reliable high-performance Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controller card. Offering an extensive ...

The NB<->SB link on the 7xx chipsets is basically a 4x ~PCIe Gen 1.0 channel. So, in theory, you could saturate the link with enough SATA/PCI/USB traffic. If you want to guarantee the most bandwidth ...

so, i've been working this backwards and forwards in my head and on google. It seems possible, though some of the technicalities escape me. I'd basically like to build the equivalent of an external ...

High-speed serial buses such as Serial ATA (SATA) use differential signals to carry data between PC motherboards or PCI cards and SATA disk drives. With first-generation SATA signals running at 1.5 ...

Serial ATA Standards Organization (SATA-IO) is working on a specification which it claims could eliminate the need for power cables on external drives.. The Power Over eSATA initiative aims to design ...

The Irvine, Calif.-based vendor, known more for its silicon-based components in the broadband and telecom industry, is taking advantage of its acquisition of RAIDcore, a Nashua, N.H.-based developer ...

SATA-IO, the industry group behind the Serial ATA standard, has formally released the SATA 3.2 specification with the promise of boosting transfer rates as high as 16Gb/s in future devices. The latest ...