No (EIDE only)
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.
Not directly. The D845GVSR has no SATA connectors or controllers. A third-party SATA controller can be added through a PCI slot.
It wouldn't be a SATA motherboard if you couldn't connect SATA drives to it.
Yes, SATA II (SATA 3 Gb/s) devices are backward compatible with SATA I (SATA 1.5 Gb/s) interfaces. This means that you can connect a SATA II hard drive or SSD to a SATA I motherboard, but the drive will operate at the lower SATA I speed. However, if you connect a SATA I drive to a SATA II interface, it will run at the SATA I speed as well.
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.
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.
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.
SATA cables.
Yes, SATA is used to connect the hard drives to the motherboard.
Yes, you can it's backward compatible.
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.
Most likely it's 2 SATA 2 ports.