SATA 3 is backwards compatible, it means you connect it the same way as SATA 1.
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No, iMac G3's were discontinued before SATA was introduced
Most likely it's 2 SATA 2 ports.
No, it does not. It only has 2 IDE Ports. But you could buy a PCI Card with SATA ports.
a sata power connector is normally used for powering sata dvd drives as well as sata hard drives and ssd drives
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.
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 .
use a different harddrive not using SATA such as an external USB or IEE1394 or SCSI or replace your motherboard with one with more SATA ports (4 ports is standard minimum)
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.
Serial port generally refers to Serial ATA port. These Serial ATA ports are better known as "SATA" ports. You will find them on Hard Drives and Solid State Drives specifically. But you may also find them on peripherals such as card readers for Flash media and Optical Drives. SATA is categorized into 3 categories SATA, SATA II and SATA III. The Function of SATA is to transfer data. Previous to SATA, Computers used "IDE" service which was far slower and more expensive to manufacture than SATA.
Western digital needs to have no jumper to be by itself on a cable, or bios sometimes shares the sata as ide0 and so change your sata port and enable one as ide and the other channel as sata.