MaxUpgrades on Tuesday announced its MaxConnect ATA/IDE for Power Mac G5s. The assembly enables users to install a third disk drive without requiring a PCI host ...

For embedded computing hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard drive is usually the last ...

Three new performance drives challenge the establishment: Seagate’s Barracuda ATA IV (80 GB) and Western Digital’s WD600BB as well as 800BB (60 and 80 GB). They are characterized by a rotation speed ...

All Barracuda ATA series hard drives are packaged inside an aluminum die casting case, which has both an advantage and a disadvantage. It’s generally known that most CPU heat sinks are made of ...

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.

Our Power Mac G4 is back from the repair shop and all seems well (see previous item). While the Mac was being fixed, we set up the G4's drive as an external 3.5" FireWire hard drive. Here are some ...

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The DriveWire universal hard-drive adapter provides a USB connection to 2.5- or 3.5-in. IDE (integrated-drive-electronics) or SATA (serial-advanced-technology-attachment) drives. The adapter comes ...