We recently borrowed a Promise Fastrak TX4650 RAID card for our how to build a NAS box guide, but we were still curious whether the card is faster than an on-board RAID controller. So, with four ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of computer hardware, storage interfaces play a crucial role in determining the speed, efficiency, and overall performance of storage devices. Two primary contenders in ...

It’s probably been a while since you’ve dealt with your computer’s motherboard. You don’t have to, as long as you simply sit at your PC or notebook and carry out everyday tasks. However, if you want ...

Not everyone needs 4-bay RAID solutions like the Promise R4i, and not everyone needs ridiculously-fast RAID SSD setups like the Sonnet M.2 4×4 PCIe Card. Enter the Promise Pegasus J2i. The Promise ...

That’s not always the case, as there are some newer standards available for high-speed drives. But alongside PCIe and NVMe, SATA is still a significant player, especially when it comes to larger-sized ...

Yesterday we told you about the PhotoFast G-Monster V5 and how the company was able to take a PhotoFast RAID controller and package it with two G-Monster V3 solid state drives all in a single 2.5 inch ...

It's a well-known fact that solid-state drives (SSDs) are faster and superior to old mechanical hard drive disks, which are more commonly called HDDs (via Enterprise Storage Platform). An archaic ...

PCIe SSDs are newer and more technologically advanced than SATA SSDs, but that doesn't mean users should choose PCIe SSDs over SATA SSDs every time. Both types of SSDs have certain advantages and ...

PCI Express has come into our PC industry with huge promises and yes, it has delivered. A single PCI Express x1 lane can deliver double the bandwidth of the PCI bus and it's point to point, no sharing ...

Is there any certain chipset to look for to see if a card supports hotswapping?<BR><BR>I don't need RAID or anything fancy, just 2 internal SATA connectors on a PCI card. It does need to be reliable ...

The Serial ATA International Organization (let's just call them SATA-IO for short) announced this week it's developing a new standard called SATA Express. This is exactly what it sounds like, in that ...