The only thing that stopped SATA dead in its tracks was running three 36-inch SATA cables end-to-end using cable No. 3, No. 4 and No 11. That’s nine feet of cables kids. Don’t try this at home!

While the M.2 form factor is by far the most common — and can still be used with SATA drives — using it with a PCIe SSD will restrict bandwidth to x4 lanes and hinder overall performance.

There are also combination slots that can accommodate and control SATA SSDs. As soon as the M.2 slot is occupied by a SATA SSD, it switches from PCIe to SATA. The speed advantage of PCIe is thus lost.

We recently looked at HP's high-performance Thunderbolt 3 portable SSD, the P800. With it, we learned the company like attaching the cable to the drive, so you never have to look for a cable to ...

Solid state drives have become so quick that SATA can no longer handle them, so a new connection standard called NVMe has been invented to replace it. The 750 Series is the first such drive built ...

Physically it looks like a USB long cable (about two feet long) with a weird connector at one end (that’s a SATA connector for those who didn’t know) and a USB 3.0 one at the other.

We've all forgotten to plug in a SATA cable, or not quite mounted an NVMe SSD correctly. There's no shame in it. Step 1: If you are installing a SATA SSD, ...