Two drives on SATA

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Not being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE)
I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master & 1
slave)?

Mickey
 
Not being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE)
I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master & 1
slave)?
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One per connector
 
Nonny said:
Since there can only be one drive per connector, that would be
expected.
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SATA has a feature called port multiplication. If supported by the
controller, multiple drives can be connected to the same port.
 
SATA has a feature called port multiplication. If supported by the
controller, multiple drives can be connected to the same port.
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Interesting. Where does one find the cables?
 
You buy a port multiplier, and use normal sata cables.
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COOL.

That's good to know: it means I don't have to stop with my current
collection of 4 internal HDs.
 
kind of very short answers...
when connecting 2nd sata, the pc might not boot, because it sees the 2nd
disk as the first - so no OS available. Then swap the connector cables. when
there's only one disk it doesn't matter which connector u use.
sometimes the 1st conn. has a different color.
it is true that the 2nd disk has no need to be set as slave when using sata
hd's
 
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