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I'm thinking about getting a hard drive and a ssd for my newly built computer. And i was wondering if you can use the same sata ports for both the ssd and hdd? I only have two sata ports on my motherboard and i was thinking about getting a sata cable which splits from one sata port at one end and at the other has two. Would that work for a ssd and hdd?
 
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No ... however if you only have a single SATA port available to use, you could use an SSHD which is a HD w/ a small SSD built in.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5748/seagate-desktop-2tb-sshd-st2000dx001-review/index9.html

A situation like this left most power users using an SSD for their operating system, while still running a secondary mechanical drive for storage and games. A typical setup such as this would allow the OS to load very quickly, while leaving you stunned at how long it took to load a game. With the introduction of the Desktop SSHD, Seagate has again switched up the game, offering a substantial performance boost to those of you in this situation.

Now, if you are one that chooses to use a single drive for your operating system, and have held onto your standard desktop HDD for the benefit of capacity, the Desktop SSHD is calling your name. The 8GB of NAND cache in conjunction with Seagate's application optimized algorithms should offer a tremendous performance boost, and again the more you use, it the faster the drive will get, as it learns how you use your system

In every case seen here today, the Seagate Desktop SSHD excels, whether it be a synthetic point and click benchmark like HD Tune or ATTO, or even application traces via PCMark 8, the drive just performs.
Click to expand...

We haven't bough a HD in almost 7 years:

Windows Boot Times

HD = 21.2 seconds
SSHD = 16.5 seconds
SSD = 15.6 seconds

http://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=1&sort=a10&f=2

Most builds get an SSD and SSHD ... budget builds get the single SSHD
 
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Sata drives or devices are designed only to run one device connected to the sata port.

It is not like the old days like with the parallel IDE type cable where you could connect up to two devices of a HDD and a Dvd drive or two HDD`s one set as a master device, and the other as a slave device Jamo.

Each Drive connected to a Sata port is only and always selected as a stand alone master device.
With no option to change a Sata based HDD, SSD, or optical drive to a slave device via a jumper.

So your out of luck.

The only way around it is to buy a Pci-e x 4 lane add in card that has the provision to support of up to four more sata type drive interfaces i`m afraid as a solution to your problem if you have a free x4 or x1 card slot on your motherboard as it stands Jamo ok.

Bellow is an ebay link to a few Pci-e sata interface cards.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l2632.R2.TR4.TRC1.A0.H0.Xpci-e+sata+.TRS0&_nkw=pcie+sata+card&_sacat=175673


 
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There is no such cable.
But you can get PCIE sata controller card, that adds more sata ports to the pc.
ADMS6GPX2%20Diagram%202.jpg

 
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"two sata ports".
What motherboard is this?
 
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What ever motherboard it is if it only has two sata ports in total you can bet it is a really cheap motherboard in some way I would think.

The lack of connectors or expansion features and interfaces usually means it`s the case, the sort of motherboard used in a pre built system or something I guess. Parts cost cutting ect.

Possibly a custom motherboard found in HP or other company's that sell pre built and setup systems to run right off the bat when powered up for the first time.
 
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