I need to get a new DVD drive for one of my machines, and I'd like to know if I would be able to boot from a SATA DVD drive on an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard. I know that it can boot from SATA ...

If you plug it into SATA 3 or 4 (VT6421), the drive will come up in the SATA listing during bootup, and will work fine under Windows, but will not be bootable.<BR><BR>Another gotcha after I got ...

The Plextor PX-810SA DVD Super Multi Drive is a great performing CD/DVD burner. Its SATA connection opens up bandwidth to allow greater data throughput than EIDE/ATA. It doesn't support HD burning ...

That requires removing the DVD drive and replacing it with the adapter you bought and your SSD. Removing the DVD drive turns out to be fairly simple on many laptops.

Alternately, this less expensive $9 Micro SATA Cables-branded adapter can be made to fit inside Mac minis, though you’ll only be able to use two screws to hold the drive — not a problem if ...

Depending on the model, a Compaq Presario might use a SATA hard drive or an IDE drive. The former is found in most models released after 2003, and the latter in earlier PCs.

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

The Plextor M6e is an M.2 SSD mounted on a x2 PCIe 2.0 card. The M6e isn’t a traditional hard-wired NAND-on-a-card PCIe SSD that requires a driver, and it’s not a 2.5-inch SATA SSD mounted on ...

SATA disk drives are normally in a one drive/one SATA controller port configuration. But in recent years, a new approach, known as the port multiplier, has extended this connectivity to multiple ...