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How Do I Add Another SATA Hard Drive?

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Neil Jones   07-22-2008 at 09:24:36 PM

I already have two internal hard drives and I wish to add a third internal hard drive. With SATA can you slave off the hard drive like you use to do with IDE or do I have to buy a card that will plug into one of my PCI slots (I don't have PCI Express)?

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grieve   07-22-2008 at 09:49:41 PM
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-Insert the SATA drive into a bay..
-Plug the HDD SATA cable into a SATA port on the motherboard
-Attach the power to the HDD.
-Turn computer on, done.

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Jim_L9   07-22-2008 at 10:05:27 PM
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You have to have an available SATA port or you will need a PCI card.

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MrLinux   07-22-2008 at 10:09:53 PM
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If you have run out of MoBo SATA ports then yes, you will have to add a card; you can't slave a SATA drive off another.

Another option might be an IDE to SATA converter, but they don't always work (specialy with older MoBo's).

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Neil Jones   07-23-2008 at 12:35:36 AM
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I'm out of motherboard SATA ports. Any recommendations on PCI cards? Also, I would like to use the two 5 1/2" slots in my case for removable SATA hard drives. Any recommendations for a high quality unit?

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aevm   07-23-2008 at 03:22:45 AM
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This one offers an internal SATA port and an e-SATA port for a removable HDD.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6816132007

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