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is there a way that you can put 3 Hard drives to the computer
Originally Posted by zokus You will probably have 2 ATA slots on you mobo, each one will support 2 drives, total of 4, doesn't matter if they are HDD's or optical (CD-ROM). You will need the 80 pin cables with 2 connectors on them. One CD drive will have to be jumpered to master, the second on that same cable will have to be jumpered to a slave. On the second cable depending on what you have on there, will be the main HDD (jumpered as master) and the third CDROM (jumpered as slave.) |
Originally Posted by adas123 u can put as many harddrives/cdrom drives in as your mobo supports....see how many ata ports there are and how many sata ports too. usb harddrives just are not as fast as normal internals, and alot more space effeicent |
Originally Posted by horspowr89 ATA Ports ? the slot on the mobo correct SATA ATA what is the difference ? |
Originally Posted by zokus SATA are 1/2 inch slots on your mobo, look in your manual to find out exactly where, if you have them. ATA is the standard 2 inch slots on your mobo that your CD-ROM and most likely your HDD is connected to. |
Originally Posted by horspowr89 OK i dont see and 1/2 " slots |
Originally Posted by adas123 they might not look the same....these can be either black/red and look the sixe of a usb plug but inverted so the middle sticks out kinda...lol problt if u dont have a drive hooked to 1, then u probly dont have it. |
Originally Posted by zokus This is a mobo, not necessarily yours, but the idea is the same. They're usually somewhere on the lower right half. Check out the pic. |
Originally Posted by horspowr89 Cool so from the SATA pord i can have other hard drive or CD/DVD/CDWR or some thing of that sort |