I had the opportunity to experiment with a bunch of LSI1068E based SAS controllers. As everyone knows, a SAS controller is also fully capable of handling SATA disks. And you get a much better cable ...

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA ...

the issue as far as hp has responded is that the hp hard drives are preloaded with firmware to interact directly with the hp controllers and servers. this has not been put on the drives to disuade you ...

STMicroelectronics’ compact and highly-integrated hard disk-drive (HDD) Motor Controller targets 1.8-in. and sub-1.8-in. drives used in portable products such as MP3 and video players. The L7208 HDD ...