In the Market for a New Rig

[Xpendable]

For SATA power connectors, they do. For SATA data lines, they do not. Each SATA data connection is meant for a single device, no daisy chaining possible, as far as I know.

Thanks for the info and. A heads up on a few things I might run into!

[Bones]

For SATA power connectors, they do. For SATA data lines, they do not. Each SATA data connection is meant for a single device, no daisy chaining possible, as far as I know.

Thanks for the info and. A heads up on a few things I might run into!

Hi Xpen,

Yes, that's kind of what I thought. You have confirmed that for me. I wonder if there is an adaptor to go from SATA to PCI or something. Too bad MoBos don't' have enhanced IDE anymore...but then that would defeat the speed purpose too.

And yes, I was continuing posting this because I figured it could be some benefit for you too.

Now what I would like to know is why this brand new clean install of Win11 refuses to recognize my power settings. My Win10 did that, and I can kind of expect that since it was probably older and corrupted, but this is a brand new OS. It refuses to go to turn off monitors and go to sleep when I tell it to, kind of like my son!

I have to do it manually all the time, it's a pain.

v6,
boNes

[Xpendable]

Yes, they make SATA drive controllers for PCI bus. That is how you would add additional SATA drives to a motherboard that ran out of SATA ports. Think of it as an extra hard drive controller. Example product that adds 4 SATA ports.

https://www.newegg.com/p/17Z-013G-00008 ... -_-Product

There's a similar product that adds 6 SATA ports, and if you really want to go crazy, this bad boy will add 10:

https://www.newegg.com/p/17Z-014U-00004 ... -_-Product

[Bones]

Yes, they make SATA drive controllers for PCI bus. That is how you would add additional SATA drives to a motherboard that ran out of SATA ports. Think of it as an extra hard drive controller. Example product that adds 4 SATA ports.

https://www.newegg.com/p/17Z-013G-00008 ... -_-Product

There's a similar product that adds 6 SATA ports, and if you really want to go crazy, this bad boy will add 10:

https://www.newegg.com/p/17Z-014U-00004 ... -_-Product

Thanks!!!!

I found a version that only has 2 ports for half the price--that's all I need--so I'm getting that.

v6,
boNes