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Subject: Re: Attn: RIB (and Group) - Re: SATA Multiplier Cards...
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:01:35 GMT, NoOne <noone@nowhere.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 02:14:24 +0000, |--Spike=- wrote:
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>> Thanks. It all seems to be a gray area between the specs of the PC and
>> what I need a SATA card to do... as is expected from any PC
>
>FYI, there's a difference between a SATA multiplier card and a SATA interface
>card. The former allows multiple SATA drives to be connected to a single SATA
>port, while the latter gives you extra dedicated SATA ports. A multiplier will be
>slow if you are reading and writing from multiple drives through the same data
>lane on the motherboard.
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Thanks for That. Now I know that I need an interface card and NOT a
multiplier. I MAY have made that error when ordering one.
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