In today’s rapidly advancing technology, computers as productivity tools have long integrated into our lives. Surely, everyone has encountered slow booting and lagging issues with their computers. If you search online for solutions, you will often see recommendations to replace your hard drive with a solid-state drive. So, when you search for solid-state drives in … Read more
Set Device Bits FIS Set Device Bits FIS (FIS Type = A1h) is a relatively “lightweight” FIS in the SATA protocol, used to allow the device to update the fields in the host shadow register that are exclusively writable by the device. What is it used for? • Function: Update the Shadow Register Block • … Read more
Introduction In the SATA protocol, the essence of data transmission is the interaction of FIS (Frame Information Structure). Different FIS types are responsible for different aspects: some are for “notification”, some for “context configuration”, and others for “actual data transfer”. If we consider SATA as a highway, then these FIS are like traffic lights, road … Read more
Click the above“blue text”to follow us! According to research from TrendForce’s DRAMeXchange, a global market research organization, the NAND Flash industry is experiencing a significant oversupply this year. SSD manufacturers are engaged in a price war, leading to a sharp decline in prices for PC OEM SSDs. It is expected that the contract average price … Read more
The development of hard disk technology has gone through multiple advancements and transformations in interface technology. Storage expert Wu will lead everyone to explore the grand view of hard disk interfaces and witness the past and future of hard disk interfaces. Old Disk Interfaces IDE Interface IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is a disk interface that … Read more
In today’s rapidly advancing technology, computers have long become a part of our daily lives as productivity tools. You have probably encountered issues like slow boot times and lagging. If you search online for solutions, you will often see recommendations to upgrade to a solid-state drive (SSD). When you search for SSDs on shopping platforms, … Read more
Many engineers who started learning with the 51 microcontroller might feel a bit confused by this question. How can a parallel interface, which can send a large amount of parallel data, be slower than a serial interface? The 51 microcontroller also has a parallel port, which is used for driving LCD screens and connecting external … Read more
When partitioning a SATA hard drive in Linux and formatting it with mkfs.ntfs, the files cannot be read when connected to Windows. By using Win+x to open Disk Manager, the hard drive is recognized (Disk1), but no drive letter is assigned: The context menu options are mostly greyed out, with only Delete Volume available. However, … Read more
This article provides a detailed explanation of what each slot on a motherboard represents and aims to offer corresponding assistance. It will greatly help in providing a thorough analysis. This analysis is based on the H610-VH motherboard. 1: Motherboard power slot. If it is not plugged in or the motherboard does not respond, we can … Read more
The motherboard, as one of the most fundamental components of a computer, contains many different types of interfaces. Today, I will introduce the functions of each interface for those who are not very familiar with this aspect. First, let’s look at the side interfaces, as shown in the figure: Front interface diagram of the motherboard: … Read more