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What is the maximum number of SATA drives you can have on a system?
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∙ 9y ago
It depends on your computer most these days come with just one with the capability of adding at least 3 or more.
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What is the maximum number of drives that can be installed?
the maximum number of drives that can be installed depends upon how many drive bay slots your case has and how many SATA connections your motherboard has.
What might be the purpose for SATA style power connector?
a sata power connector is normally used for powering sata dvd drives as well as sata hard drives and ssd drives
How to connect two hard drives and a dvdcdrw?
Check the motherboard. You can connect two drives to a single parallel cable. Most traditional motherboards have two IDE sockets and you can run a maximum of four drives. (one cable per socket, two drives per cable) but you need to configure the drives with jumpers as "primary" and "slave". Many of the newer motherboards have a "SATA" (Serial ATA) socket or some combination of SATA and IDE but you'd have to use a SATA drive with a SATA cable to use the SATA socket.
What transfer rates are used by sata drives?
Theoretical maximum throughput: SATA II: 3Gb per second. SATA III: 6Gb per second. The maximum uncoded transfer rates are 2.4 Gb per second and 4.8Gb per second, respectively.
Where can one purchase a SATA hard drive?
Someone can purchase a SATA hard drive from a number of companies such as Amazon. Amazon has a large selection of SATA hard drives from a number of manufacturers.
Do optical sata drives need a separate audio connection?
no, sata drives transfer all of the data through the sata cable
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 Vista compatible with Sata?
Yes. Windows Vista includes native support for SATA drives.
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.
Ide hard drive can be slave with sata hard drive?
No Master Slave designation needed. SATA Drives are plug-add-play. Improve: SATA (Serial) Attached Drives improve data tansfer speeds up to 10-100 GBytes/per. eSATA are (Externally) Serial-Attached Drives and SATA-II(Sata-2) Drives transfer data @ 300GBytes/per. The next barrier of TerraByte data transfer has been developed and is already in production with a (SATA-3) designation attached
