SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is one of the most common bus interfaces for connecting mass storage devices to a computer system.

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Mount an external SATA disk on a Virtualbox Guest

I have an external EXT3-formatted hard disk attached via SATA to a Windows machine running a Linux Virtualbox guest. I'd like to mount the disk in the Linux environment, but can't figure out how to ...
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SATA Raid-0 Mixing SATA-II + SATA-III: Change jumper?

I have 2 SATA hard disks They are 2 TB each. Both are WDC Greens Respective models of *EARS *EARX EARX is SATA-III While the other is not. While the raid does function as is, would there be any - ...
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How many drives could I attach to a SiliconImage SiI3124 based controller using port multipliers?

Would it be possible to attach twenty disks to a SiliconImage SiI3124 based controller (Lycom ST-125NR) using four Lycom ST-126RM port multipliers? Wikipedia suggests a single 'port' can support up ...
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How to connect Linux to a HDD that has been “security locked”

In the process of playing around with several hard-drives, and hdparm's --security-set-pass and --security-erase options, I have a pile of HDDs that are in a "locked" state and I cannot unlock them. ...
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Windows 8 boots very slowly and can't navigate to second SATA HDD, no problems without drive connected

I have Windows 8 installed on a GTP formatted 120 GB SSD, and it runs the OS fine with just that. Connecting my old MBR formatted 320 GB HDD as well shows in the BIOS, but Windows 8 will not load its ...
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Tips, tricks or products to organize SATA data and power cables in a small ITX case [closed]

I recently purchased a Fractal Design Node 304. As far as mini ITX cases go, it's fantastic. Probably one of the best mini cases I've ever dealt with. I've built computers now for about 15 years ...
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SATA HD low sequential read speed

I use an old P4 desktop as my home file server. Since the MB only has IDE, I use a SIL3114 controller to connect 3 SATA HDDs. Running Crystal DiskMark I get very strange results! Two of the drives (C: ...
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How designate internal SATA drive as “removable”?

I have two spinning internal data disks that I seldom use and would like to leave them turned off and not spinning much of the time. I want to "safely remove" a normal SATA internal hard drives ...
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SATA2 disk detected as SATA

I have 2 Hitachi Deskstar HDS728080PLA380 Drives, with SATA2 (3.0Gbs interface), that are only detected as SATA1 (1.5Gbs) by both Intel Rapid Storage Manager and other similar software in Windows 8. ...
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Dell PE 2950 PERC 6/i Controller. How to add 2TB local SATA as a Raw Disk Mapping to ESXi 5.1 VM [migrated]

Dell PE 2950, PERC 6/i Controller. - ESXi 5.1 installed/Boot from USB drive. 2 x 1 TB SAS drives in RAID 1 - Datastore1.1x 2TB SATA drive set as RAID 0. We wish to host all our VMs from Datastore1 ...
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Using an SSD as a portable external drive?

Is it possible to use an SSD as a portable external drive? Are there tangible benefits to doing so over using a HDD, such as improved read/write times? I believe I am picking up where this thread ...
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Multiple hard drive installation

My motherboard has 4 SATA ports. I have 16 Seagate Barracuda hard drives (3 TB each). If it is possible, how do I install these hard drives in my computer?
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Do seagate 3 TB hard disk need special setup before usage?

Is it mandatory to install special seagate drivers http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/ if you use a 3 TB SATA disk over external eSATA expressCard Adapter? I have an old and a new ...
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Locked SSD: Am I out of luck?

I've managed to get myself into a bind. I have a OCZ Vertex 2 SSD that has a low level lock turned on (seems to be from a failed secure erase with parted magic, though not sure). I'm hammering at ...
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Why would you need to slow a SATA II hard drive?

I was going over some of my older drives and found a Seagate SATA drive that had a jumper inserted for 1.5Gb/s mode. I pulled the jumper and low an behold, it is a SATA II drive. Why would this be an ...
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How to connect multiple HDDs to a computer?

What is the best and most efficient way to connect 10 - 20 SATA HDDs to a home computer? I mean an ordinary motherboard supporting 2 connections for SATA HDDs. The purpose of this assembly is to ...
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Windows installation detectes hard drive, but bios does not

Some days ago my computer started to be unstable. It only started when "he wanted". Today it stopped to initialize and BIOS can't recognize my sata hard-drives. When I load Windows 7 installation, I ...
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AHCI driver installed but XP32 SP3 won't recognize it - only IDE

I want to get my existing XP32 installation to switch from accessing the primary active SATA drive via AHCI instead of IDE. XP32 was originally installed via IDE. I downloaded the appropriate ...
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Are USB drives as reliable as SATA [closed]

I am making a server that will have files on one 250 GB SATA hard drive that will be copied to the other 250 GB SATA hard drive (RAID). When I install my operating system (lubuntu or slackware) I can ...
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Broken hard drive

I have a tower PC that recently had a boot error stating that the hard drive could not be read. When the computer starts up, you can hear the hard drive spinning up normally, just as it had in the ...
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Is CHKDSK a warning sign of failing drive?

This morning CHKDSK ran on its own during boot. It scanned 1 out of 3 HDDs in my PC. Is it a warning sign that that particular HDD is about die?
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SATA3 6Gb/s HDD vs SSD [closed]

So I know a SATA3 handles a maximum speed of about 750MB. But when comparing this HDD and this SSD, what would be the difference in terms of read/write speed. Won't they both be using the SATA3 busing ...
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What is meant by “Single Driver Per channel”? SATA

In the following context SATA only supports a single driver per channel? What is a channel?
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What is the exact capacity of 1000GB HDD?

1 GiB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes 1 GB = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes That is easy! I don't want to talk about this! I have laptop which should have (according to seller) 1000 GB. That is 1000 000 000 ...
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How to fit 12 drives onto a server motherboard

I am thinking of building a cheap home server and found a server chassis which holds 12 SATA drives. I'm looking at this motherboard, but I am having a hard time understanding how to fit 12 drives ...
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How can I install a desktop 3.5" SATA drive on a laptop without any adapters and use it as the main(system) drive?

I am pretty sure I'm the first human in the whole universe and multiverses. Here it is... like an idiot I bought a 3.5" SATA drive for my laptop. I used it to install the OS through USB but I got the ...
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How do I disable the “SECURITY FREEZE LOCK” on my SATA hard disk?

I am sending ATA commands to SATA HDD using IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH in windows. IDENTIFY DEVICE (ECh) ATA commands returns 256 words of data. Word 128, Bit 3 is set in the returned data, and according ...
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Stress testing all SATA links

I have a few servers. Each has 9 backplanes, and each backplane has 5 hard drives. Once in a while, one of the cables connecting a backplane to the motherboard (actually a pci card on the motherboard) ...
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Damaged disk recovery

I have a damaged hard drive. It works well till disk reads specific sector, the disk shut down and the only way to make it work again is to plug it on again. On the Error scan screenshot from HD Tune ...
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Hang during reboot

I've recently installed a second HDD bay in my laptop, but now, every time I issue a reboot, the computer hangs for about 1m30s (completely freezes on a black screen, with the fans at the maximum ...
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SAS 15,000rpm RAID 0 slower than external eSATA single 7200rpm drive. Why?

I've got two internal 135GB SAS drives in a RAID 0 array making a 270GB logical volume talking to my Dell Precission T5500 motherboard via a Dell supplied SAS 6iR controller. Writing Speed I SaveAs ...
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Can I reorder SATA port connections?

I currently have 5 SATA-Drives installed and Windows 7 installed. I want to reorder the connections, ie connect alle the drives to different ports. Does this mess up anything in windows?
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Is standby mode healthy for a HDD?

I've recently bought an SSD and replaced my laptop's DVD drive space with the stock HDD, so that I cound install the SSD on the HDD port. However, I've noticed that the HDD is now sometimes going into ...
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Why is my hard drive so slow? Is this normal?

I just built a complete new computer including a motherboard with SATA 3 ports and a brand new 2 TB harddrive 7200RPM, 64mb cache, and Sata 3 capable. I'm working with some large files and its taking ...
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Can a TRIM capable SSD be used on a non-TRIM system and transferred to a TRIM capable machine for maintenance?

My current system has a slow hard drive, through a PATA interface. SATA interface is not an option. I am planning to replace the HDD with an mSATA SSD through a PATA adapter, though this will not ...
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Installing Windows 8 on late 2012 iMac 3TB SATA Disk

Yes I know installing windows on the new 3TB iMac through bootcamp is not officially supported, but after doing some research it seemed that it was quite possible to do so anyways. Twocanoes seemed to ...
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Switching from IDE to AHCI and booting Fedora

I have switched SATA controller mode from IDE to AHCI, and my Fedora (the latest release) doesn't boot now. I'm not surprised by this fact alone, but I am surprised with the message I'm getting: ...
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Connect 4 TB HDD to Intel Q57 Express onboard SATA-II port

I'd like to replace my current data hard disk (SATA-II, 2.0 TB) with a new, bigger one. I considered going for a new 4 TB drive by Hitachi (SATA-III). But I'm not sure, if I can use it with my "old" ...
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How to change Sata controller settings to avoid a blue screen? Windows 8

How to go from AHCI to IDE just for firmware flashing on my SSD. Currently using windows 8. Tried a few times but kept getting the dreaded blue screen.
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Desktop won't boot with two drives

I am trying to startup the computer with two drives; one is connected with SATA(Windows XP, 40G) and the other with IDE(blank, 80G). With just the SATA drive, it boots fine, but when I add the other ...
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3TB Seagate Barracuda causing freezing

Hi I have bought a brand new 3TB Seagate hard drive. I tried to copy data from my older hard drives to the new one, but it always stops copying selected data set after some time and the file manager ...
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Any good ARM board suitable for NAS? [closed]

I've been looking for few days already, and I could not find good board with arm processor for my NAS server. It should be at max mini-ITX, have at min 4 sata3 ports and gigabit ethernet. Am I ...
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sysprep generalize when upgrading motherboard or changing SATA mode

This is my first post here and was looking for a possible solution to my question. I have been using sysprep generalize when upgrading motherboards, or switching SATA mode operations from IDE - AHCI ...
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Highest effective transfer rate on SATA II

Assuming I have a SATA III SSD drive that has a throughput of >500 MB/s. What is a reasonable estimate of the effective throughput on a SATA II controller? I know that SATA II has 3.0 GBit/s ...
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SSD SATA III with motherboard SATA I [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is SATA 3 backwards compatible? Are SATA II and SATA 3.0 Gbps compatible? I want to buy SSD and connect it to my super old system: motherboard with SATA1 (yes SATAI = ...
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Hard drives not recognized on Windows 8 unless entering BIOS first [closed]

I've built a new computer. My old computer had two SATA 3GB drives: 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST31000340AS) 750 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (ST3750640AS) The new computer uses an OCZ Vertex ...
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secondary SATA drive in SATA1 vs SATA3 - EFI booting and BIOS problems

I just got a new PC (HP P7-1380T) with Windows 7 preinstalled. The machine is set up for EFI booting without 'secure boot'. I had planned to install my old SATA drive (dual-boot XP and Linux with ...
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Which SATA drivers to load in Windows System Recover Options on HP Envy h8-1414

I just cloned Windows 7 64-bit professional from an existing drive to a new one on an HP Envy h8-1414. Now I'm at the Windows System Recovery Options screen ...
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SATA 6Gb/s vs. 3Gb/s when using SSD Caching via Intel RST?

Background / Setup I have a desktop that I built (Full Specs here if you need them for reference). It currently utilizes 2x1TB drives (SATA 6.0 Gb/s) in a RAID1 configuration. I use Intel RST to use ...
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Is it possible to make a disk-to-disk clone via USB?

I have an internal laptop HDD which I wish to copy to another SATA HDD. There is no spare storage for storing an image, so I wish to make a direct disk-to-disk clone. I have connected the destination ...

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