Can I get another hard drive if I only have 2 sata ports on my motherboard?

A

alexjb

Member
Hello :) I currently have a 120gb ocz agility 3 SSD and a DVD-RW plugged into my motherboard, but my motherboard only has 2 Sata ports and Sata cables, is there any way I can get more ports? As I really need more storage space, thanks! :)
 
Just look at the specs of each cable for wherever you plan on buying them. Some are sata 1, some are sata 2 and some are sata 3.
 
Your board has more than two SATA ports. It has two SATA 6GB/s ports, but it should have several SATA 3GB/s ports too in addition to the two 6GB/s ports your board has. You can plug your hard drive and optical drive (that's your DVD drive) into the 3GB/s ports and keep your SSD plugged into one of the 6GB/s ports.

The white ports are 6GB/s and are for your SSD, and the black ones are 3GB/s and are for optical drives and hard drives.

There's no need to buy any extra cards if your board already has the ports you need.
 
Yeah, if its the Z77A-G43 then you have 2 Sata 3 ports and 4 sata 2 ports. I guess I should have asked what board you had.
 
oh that's great news! thanks! :) I thought there was only 2, so I guess the Sata 3 ports are faster? does it make a difference for a DVD-RW drive? thanks! :)
 
No it won't. You can connect dvd drives to either one and it will still perform the same as a dvd drive is actually slower than a hard drive.
 
johnb35 said:
No it won't. You can connect dvd drives to either one and it will still perform the same as a dvd drive is actually slower than a hard drive.
Click to expand...

that's great thanks!:) that saves me some money yay :) thank you I am going to buy an ssd hopefully this week :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top