sata

Hi I am looking to build a new pc and the only thing I am stuck on is whether one m.2 SSD (512gb) is enough. I do also have a 1TB external hard drive. Thanks.

Hi I am looking to build a new pc and the only thing I am stuck on is whether one m.2 SSD (512gb) is enough. I do also have a 1TB external hard drive. Thanks.

I currently have a Samsung 1 TB SSD 840 EVO SATA, which I use as my Windows 10 drive and for data (games etc). Some of the games lag a bit on disk I/O (saves etc), so I was wondering about getting a faster (2 TB) drive, but I don't know much about M.2. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z370-HD3...

My latest build (see sig) uses only NVME drives. The SATA ports sit unused. But they still consume valuable motherboard space and valuable chipset PCIe lanes. I could live with SATA ports being relegated to just two or even to an add-in card. Edit: I’m not suggesting that no motherboard have...

I have a SATA 2 disk drive which I need to connect to the motherboard, and can't identify which SATA power cable I need. The motherboard connector has 4 pins 1.5cm wide, and has a plastic bend-back catch on the front. It is smaller than the IDE MOLEX style with two corners shaved off. There is...

Hi there, bit of advice please. I'm in the process of building a small "spare" PC with some old bits. I have a PSU (a Nexus RX-8500), but I don't appear to have any of the modular 6-pin 12v molex / SATA power cables. I only need two cables (or one that is split possibly?), one for my SATA...

Hello all, I am taking a break from looking for GPUs that don't exist and turning my attention to storage drives. Hopefully there's a deal to be had over the weekend. I want two drives - one as the boot drive and install drive for my CAD programs. The second can be for storage, CAD files and...

Hi I recently built a new PC with an ASUS ROG Strix X570-F Motherboard. The specification of the pc is as follows: ASUS ROG Strix X570-F Motherboard - BIOS 2407 x64 AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Processor (8C/16T, 36 MB Cache, 4.4 GHz Max Boost) Sabrent 1TB Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal SSD...

I just purchased this as a replacement to my dead water pump. The main tank also has a SATA connection. Is this for the light? as it is not connected to the pump. Thanks..

Hello - I have a A68HM PLUS motherboard which only has 2 SATA sockets. I have the SSD with the OS on and a DVD connected so no capability for another HDD. The Graphics card (RX570) "hides" the other PCI express (PCIex1_1) slot underneath it and the only other slot available is an "old...

Space on motherboards is precious and NVME / M.2 drives require a lot. SATA is old tech, so why not just drop the SATA ports on the motherboard and supply an add-in SATA card for one of the x1 or x4 slots instead? Or even an adapter for one of the M.2 slots. When do you think this will happen...

I am running a system based on a Gigabyte Z97X-SLI motherboard which I am (reluctantly, finally) moving over from Windows 7 to Windows 10. My current System "disk" is a 120 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD (no longer available). I am considering replacing it with a larger and faster 250 GB Samsung 970 EVO...

Could anyone please advise me? My PC has 8 SATA power cables and 6 SATA data ports, meaning I can hook up a maximum of 6 SATA drives. Is there any way to increase this? Ideally I'd like to have about 14 or more? Just to explain the reason why I want to do this... I want to rip my entire CD...

So I have an HP Ultirum 3000 LTO5 drive. I had wanted to install it internally but for various reasons this is no longer possible due to lack of space. I have purchased an external 5.25" enclose to house & power the tape drive & I wanted to run a SATA cable from the back of the tape drive to an...

I am trying to fit a new HDD to my PC. My power supply (EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply) has only 6 pin PCI express connectors, and my HDD is a 15 pin SATA cable. I need approx. 12" of cable to complete this, however I am finding it very difficult to source the...

With a SATA SSD you can unplug it from one PC and plug it into another. Is the same possible with M.2 drives?

So I was working on a clients laptop where his hard drive was corrupted and wasn't loading Windows. I went through the process of elimination and decided I'd plug it into my test bench and load Linux up. After I plugged it in I the test bench and turnt it start smoking pure white smoke from the...

Hi guys. I have a HP ML10 V2 server that uses a none modular stock PSU and I'm daisy chaining molex to sata power extenders/spliters to fit more drives since it's used as a file server. I'm going to be moving it out of the case it sits in next week but I'm after a PSU that I can have at least...

Hi I am doing a bit of basic upgrading of my DAW with a much larger new drive - it is SATA where the other drives are IDE. Not wanting to go through the process of reloading all my software I decided to clone my relatively small hard drive (c) to th much larger new SATA hard drive (not SSD)...

I plugged in a Sata2 drive when pc was on (intentionally), pc did not respond for a few seconds ( i can still right click, but no program opened and left click menus did not appear), then I could use my pc and use the connected hdd, then I notice I have over 70 svchost processes. No svchost...