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Q: Is a dell dimension 4550 motherboard compatible with SATA HDD?
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How many SATA are there in the motherboard?

It depends on a motherboard. You can have 2 of them or all 6 of them Maybe there are motherboards with more than 6 ports but they are expensive. I need the location of SATA connections fopr a Dimension 4300 motherboard; hopely with a location graphic.


Is an Intel D845GVSR motherboard compatible with SATA hard drives?

Not directly. The D845GVSR has no SATA connectors or controllers. A third-party SATA controller can be added through a PCI slot.


Why does a sata motherboard contain sata connections?

It wouldn't be a SATA motherboard if you couldn't connect SATA drives to it.


What does a SATA cable do?

SATA, or serial advanced technology attachment, connects the motherboard to hard drives and optical drives. This cable is inserted into the SATA slot on the motherboard.


Is ATA100 hard disk compatible with ATA150 mother board?

Not necessarily. "ATA-150" is SATA. If your motherboard has an IDE controller, the disk will work. If the board has only SATA, you will not be able to connect the drive without an adapter.


Is sata 3.0 backward compatible with sata 1.5?

If you plug a SATA 3.0 drive into a SATA 1.5 port on your motherboard, the drive should be able to function at a 1.5Gb/s transfer rate. Some drives require a jumper setting, while others natively recognize their allocated bandwidth and adjust accordingly.


Can you plug sata to sata 3?

Yes, you can it's backward compatible.


Is sata a real connection name?

Yes, SATA is used to connect the hard drives to the motherboard.


Drives are connected to the motherboard with ribbon cables or thinner cables?

SATA cables.


What is the function of a PATA cable?

A sata cable connects a motherboard to a Sata hard drive. Modern power supplies have special chords made to power Sata hard drives where as old ones do not. Older computers have Eide cables to connect the motherboard to the hard drive.


What type of sata port is on a Foxconn C51GU01 Motherboard?

Most likely it's 2 SATA 2 ports.


How to connect hard disk with sata 3 to sata 1 port?

SATA 3 is backwards compatible, it means you connect it the same way as SATA 1.