SATA Question

jdderbys · 1 Dec 2006 at 09:08

Sorry for this if it sounds really dumb but iv never used SATA and its been years since i built a comp and technology has changed

Iv just build a new system and never used SATA before. As mentioned in the reply i have 2 500gb SATA drives installed into SATA port one and two (no raid).

Can i install another 1 or 2 drives in exacty the same way? i.e. just plug into SATA port 3 and 4?

Will they just appear as extra drives? or does more than 2 drives require RAID to be set up?

jdderbys · 1 Dec 2006 at 10:02

thanks for that. iv 1TB in HD currently but will eventually need to add more.

Its good to know its simple and easy to just add more

jdderbys · 1 Dec 2006 at 11:19

Sorry one more question.

My MB has 7 SATA points on it. Does that mean i can have up to 7 HD's all running as stand alones?

jdderbys · 1 Dec 2006 at 13:40

This makes life so much easier over the older IDE setup!