Orico claims the enclosure supports 5Gbps USB transfer, and supports SATA 3.0, USB 3.0, and any 7mm to 9.5mm 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD. UASP protocol is also supported.

The very first Apple silicon Mac Pro is finally here and you can buy one right now starting from $6,999. But if you do, you might want to think twice about installing your SATA hard drives.

The OS will detect and manage the drive (s) as it would any other drive and you'd be able to store data within a configured pool. The reason why many, including myself, often recommend drives designed ...

Hard drive enclosures are one of the best ways that you can add more to your rig, and if you've got a few spare SATA drives lying around, the new ORICO Dual Bay SATA Hard Drive Enclosure is one of ...

How to Use Jumpers on a SATA Hard Drive. You don't need a jumper pin on your SATA drive for desktops or servers manufactured after 2002. For older equipment, you can use a jumper on the pins to ...

Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

While even the fastest conventional hard disk drives can barely saturate the original SATA 1.5 Gbit/s bandwidth, Solid-State Drives have already saturated SATA 3 Gbit/s with 285/275 MB/s max read ...

Would I be better off buying a cheap drive that runs at 5900 rpm? I suppose that is why I'm not look at a WD Caviar Black. According to wiki, sata-3 is backward compatible. hmm ...

That’s because conventional, magnetic hard drives have yet to saturate the throughput of a SATA 3.0 Gb/s connection.