SATA Hard Drives

By Andreas Lee

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Serial ATA) is also known as SATA Hard Drives, which dominate hard drives market these days. Comes with better performance than the Parallel ATA (PATA) Drives and far away in front of its ancestor Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE Drives) in terms of specification.

SATA Drives first model (SATA1) has a better performance than PATA series, whether from its RPM or its transfer speed, smaller cable size than IDE cable, and a small cable slot that allows simplified installation.

IDE and SATA cable comparison

sata and ide cables

Western Digital Caviar Black SATA Hard Drives

sata hard drives

SATA1 successor is SATA2 which its specification certainly better than the previous, two times faster transfer speed, and some have pretty large buffer cache. One of them is Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB, can be found with relatively cheap price. SATA Hard Drives provide the best hard drives performance as you want, it is convenient in playing high resolution games, photo editing, video watching, or using multimedia software.

Specs

• Capacity : 500 GB
• Buffer cache size : 32 MB
• Disk rotation speed : 7200 rpm
• Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s
• Model : WD5001AALS
• Warranty : 5 years warranty

How To Handle Damaged SATA Hard Drives

Based on computer users observation, damage on SATA Hard Drives can be due to a fast transfer speed, indicated by a buzz noise. Recommended to backup your data as soon as possible, make it fast. This is important: do not use any software, downloading, or doing anything, just save your data (make the priority for important data), and after that check where the damaged location is. You can try to re-install Operating System, checking the bad sector by using the Error-Checking on the hard drive properties, or Scandisk Utility will automatically be used when the computer suddenly restarted.

Note: Try to use Data Recovery Software to restore lost data after the problem solved due to the crash occurred on your SATA Hard Drives.

In this case, don’t bother to check SATA Hard Drives cable because the problem is not on the cable even if the BIOS do not recognize the hard drive. Using the hard drive expert service is a best decision if you find a dead-end.

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