S-ATA and IDE

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Fokke Nauta

Hi all,

My motherboard ASUS A7V600 has 2 IDE and 2 S-ATA ports. Two IDE ports means
4 channels and these are all in use. I want to connect an extra hard drive.
Can I use one of the S-ATA ports to connect this 5th hard disk? Or are these
S-ATA port to be used instead of the IDE ports?

Thanks in advance,

With regards,
Fokke Nauta
 
RBM said:
Yes, they can be used together, at the same time. Each is a master on a
separate channel
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Thanks.
You mean to say that I can use 1 S-ATA channel *and* 4 IDE channels
alltogether, thus having 5 disk devices?

Eith regards,
Fokke Nauta
 
Thanks.
You mean to say that I can use 1 S-ATA channel *and* 4 IDE channels
alltogether, thus having 5 disk devices?

Eith regards,
Fokke Nauta
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Yes. Also you can use regular PATA hard disks on the SATA connection
if you get converters. In the US they are cheap about $15 per sata
connection and mine have worked very well but theres the slight chance
they might not work for some . I see a few people writing reviews
claiming it didnt work on their motherboard. But Ive used mine on a
nforce2 asus and now the same ones on a chaintech nforce4 board and
they work fine.
 
[email protected] said:
Yes. Also you can use regular PATA hard disks on the SATA connection
if you get converters. In the US they are cheap about $15 per sata
connection and mine have worked very well but theres the slight chance
they might not work for some . I see a few people writing reviews
claiming it didnt work on their motherboard. But Ive used mine on a
nforce2 asus and now the same ones on a chaintech nforce4 board and
they work fine.
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Thanks.
This solves my problem.

With regards,
Fokke Nauta
 
Fokke Nauta said:
Thanks.
This solves my problem.

With regards,
Fokke Nauta
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Be sure to check the capacity of your power supply against the power usage
of all those disks. Not only could you run out of connectors, you could run
out of watts, resulting in irregular operation, unexpected shutdowns, and
especially CD-R calibration and write errors.

As a case in point, I have a CD-RW drive that works fine in one machine with
a 300W PS and one hard drive, but fails repeatedly in a similar machine with
a 240W PS and three hard drives.

I once read that the typical HDD uses about 60 watts starting up and only a
fraction of that afterward. That's old information even if true, but five
drives pulling 60 watts each at startup could shut down the rest of the
machine.
 
Be sure to check the capacity of your power supply against the power usage
of all those disks. Not only could you run out of connectors, you could run
out of watts, resulting in irregular operation, unexpected shutdowns, and
especially CD-R calibration and write errors.

As a case in point, I have a CD-RW drive that works fine in one machine with
a 300W PS and one hard drive, but fails repeatedly in a similar machine with
a 240W PS and three hard drives.

I once read that the typical HDD uses about 60 watts starting up and only a
fraction of that afterward. That's old information even if true, but five
drives pulling 60 watts each at startup could shut down the rest of the
machine.
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I agree that power consumption must be considered but 60W
could only be considered an instantaneous figure at most,
typically if you factor for at least 2A 12V per drive (and
the PSU amperage rating is honest, a big "if") it'll be
enough to get them spining in time to be detected by a
fast-enumerating board's bios. When the drives are
connected to an secondary controller that buys another
second or two at least for spin-up.

While spinning, they don't use all that much power relative
to anything else, most drives have max ratings on them. For
example the max on a Seagate 120GB sitting in front of me is
0.72A @ 5V & 0.35A @ 12V.

Even so, it should never be a goal to squeeze every last
watt out of a PSU, it'll run a lot longer given some margin.
 
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