Serial ATA is a type of hard drive connector and standard. Instead of a 40-pin parallel ATA plug, is uses around 6 wires to send the data in a serial fashion. If you don't have SATA sockets or not enough for your needs, then you have to install an expansion card with SATA connectors. They are available for different types of expansion sockets, support different SATA standards (generation 3 is the current standard), and have different numbers of SATA sockets.
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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
The SATA PCI Card is a key component add-on for a computer. It is used for establishing more connections for SATA hard drives. It also used for setting up a RAID array.
There is a a PCI card that acts as a SATA hard drive. they call it a controller card
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No, it does not. It only has 2 IDE Ports. But you could buy a PCI Card with SATA ports.
Expansion Slot is just like port into which expansion card can be inserted. In otherwords port is female and card is male.
Someone can find a guide on how to replace a PCI SATA card from a number of websites such as CNET. CNET has several in depth guides on how to replace PCI SATA cards located under its how to section.
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The expansion slot is the socket on the motherboard that can hold an adapter card. There are different types of expansion slots (pci, pcie, pciex16) so you need to check that the expansion is the same kind as the adapter card.
Aka: riser card. A riser card is a circuit board containing expansion slot(s) which allows expansion card(s) to be re-oriented and/or moved to another position relative to the motherboard. A typical riser card rotates an expansion card/slot through 90 degrees so that the card/slot is parallel to the motherboard. A riser card may be used to: - Rotate an expansion card through 90 degrees to face left or face right. - Shiftposition of an expansion card up and/or sideways.