nobody5000
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My motherboard has 2 SATA connectors, and I'm looking to add a 3rd SATA HDD to my system. Is there such thing as a SATA splitter that will allow 2 drives on 1 connector?
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SATA splitter?
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No.nobody5000 said:My motherboard has 2 SATA connectors, and I'm looking to add a 3rd SATA HDD to my system. Is there such thing as a SATA splitter that will allow 2 drives on 1 connector?
Make the 3rd hard drive PATA or buy a cheapo SATA PCI card.
Nope. Serial ATA. Each device gets its own channel, its the nature of the standard, and the primary difference between Parallel ATA. Get a cheap 2 or 4 port PCI/e card off newegg, or a RAID card if you're feeling [H] and wanna try RAID.nobody5000 said:My motherboard has 2 SATA connectors, and I'm looking to add a 3rd SATA HDD to my system. Is there such thing as a SATA splitter that will allow 2 drives on 1 connector?
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The reason sata is one-to-one isn't because it's serial - there are lots of serial buses that allow more than one device (USB, i2c, etc). Serial just means you're sending one bit at a time, rather than trying to push many bits across many pairs of wires at a time.movax said:Nope. Serial ATA. Each device gets its own channel, its the nature of the standard, and the primary difference between Parallel ATA. Get a cheap 2 or 4 port PCI/e card off newegg, or a RAID card if you're feeling [H] and wanna try RAID.
movax said:Nope. Serial ATA. Each device gets its own channel, its the nature of the standard, and the primary difference between Parallel ATA. Get a cheap 2 or 4 port PCI/e card off newegg, or a RAID card if you're feeling [H] and wanna try RAID.
Also, sata 2 supports the addition of port multipliers which allow multiple drives per controller port. The main problem is still compatability though, as was mentioned above. the serial has nothing to do with it as was also mentioned above.
Be warned with port multipliers.... Although they are part of the SATA 2 standard. Not all SATA 2 controllers actually support them. Namely all of Nvidia's SATA 2 controllers.
However, most of the cheap SATA2 PCI/PCIExpress add-on cards DO support port multipliers.
However, most of the cheap SATA2 PCI/PCIExpress add-on cards DO support port multipliers.