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Normally, only one SATA per channel can be hooked up to a motherboard. However, you can buy SATA port multipliers (similar to USB hubs) allowing you to put as many as fifteen devices on a channel.
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How many SATA connectors in the mother board?
Generally speaking, only one. However, there are some devices, known as "port multipliers" that will allow you to connect up to 15 devices to a single channel.
How many devices can be connected to one SATA interface?
One. SATA interfaces are USUALLY only one device at a time. It is possible, if the controller supports it, to use a port multiplier which allows you to use four devices off one port .
How can you connect 3 SATA devices to a board having only 2 SATA ports?
The easiest way, is to purchase a SATA PCI card. Install this card inside the pc, and it will allow x amount of extra sata devices, depending on how many the card will support. Hope this helps
What's the difference between IDE and SATA hard drives?
The simple answer? Not much. The truth is SATA and IDE devices use mostly the same components and logic. The biggest difference is the interface: the IDE standard uses ribbon cables with flat, wide connectors that allow more than one drive (a "master" and a "slave") to be connected at the same time. The SATA standard uses a smaller connector with a more narrow cable that allows only one device per channel (read "plug"). SATA will, however, perform better in RAID applications. As IDE is an aging technology, it is wise to buy SATA devices for most future purchases.
What type of power connector is used to connect to hard disk drives or optical drives?
molex for IDE devices and sata power connector for SATA devices
Drives are connected to the motherboard with ribbon cables or thinner cables?
SATA cables.
What happens when a second sata 3.0 device is add to a to sata cable that already contains a sata 1.5 device?
You cant connect two devices to the same sata cable.
Can you plug sata discs into sata 2 connectors on motherboard?
Yes. You can add as many hard drives, or other sata devices (DVD burners etc) as will fit into your case, or until you have no more sata connectors free.
How many IDE devices can a typical mainboard support?
A typical modern motherboard has 1 IDE channel, which can support 2 devices. IDE has been replaced by Serial ATA (SATA), so modern boards have 2 to 8 SATA ports. Older motherboards may have 2 to 6 IDE channels, which could support 4-12 IDE devices.
What is the purpose for the SATA-style power connector?
SATA power connector is a type of power cable with which we can provide Disks power from the mother board. SATA Power cables are connected from sata point on motherboard to the drive.
Where is sata cables most commonly used in?
SATA cables are most commonly used in computers. They are cables that are used to connect the various SATA devices inside a computer such as the hard drive.
Are SATA and ATA the same?
SATA is ATA, but there are many ATA. SATA is an acronym for Serial AT Attachment, AT being the successor to the PC standard of desktop computers. There are many ATA standards, lots, but short answer is they are outdated Paralel, so we coined a new term to cover all the old ATA devices: PATA.
