What is the maximum number of SATA devices you can connect to the motherboard using the integrated ports? You can connect one SATA device per port. If you have 4 port, you can connect 4 devices. Premium Member. Molex to Sata lose all your data. I would not use any type of splitter unless you know exactly how it is manufactured and can look at it in person.
In short, do not use a splitter unless you absolutely have to. You can install additional hard disks on a desktop computer. This setup requires that you set up each drive as a separate storage device or connect them with a RAID configuration, a special method for using multiple hard drives.
You can connect up to 4 hard drives SATA0 - 3 to this motherboard. You said your original setup was RAID0. From Wikipedia :. RAID 0 striped disks distributes data across several disks in a way which gives improved speed and full capacity, but all data on all disks will be lost if any one disk fails. Re-read the red part of my last post. If it's essential stuff, and you want to spend a ton of money, you could send both drives out to a recovery service in the hopes they can get the bad drive to work, AND figure out how the bits of each file on one drive fit together with the bits of the same file on the other drive.
They're not stored as identical backups of each other. When you read a file from a RAID0 array, Windows has to assemble the jigsaw puzzle from both drives in order to give you a complete file. Neither drive has an entire complete file. Browse Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by RoHe Unsolved.
Adnan Malik 3 Argentum. Thank You. Again, it is critical that you identified the correct drive in the previous step before continuing as the following steps will erase all data on the drive selected. The system will now ask you to choose a partition style. Review the below information on the different partition styles. Hint: You probably want GPT. This is a much more modern, robust and future proof method of partitioning. MBR is the old way of partitioning. You can only format disks up to 2TB in size and create 4 primary partitions.
There are ways of adding more partitions but it gets messy. The only reason you would ever choose MBR these days is if you use an old operating system e. By default, this will be set to the size of the entire disk which is fine for most people. You can optionally slice the disk up into several small partitions, each with their own drive letter in Windows.
The next screen asks you to chose a drive letter or NTFS mount point. Choose whatever you like here, Windows will only allow you to choose unassigned letters. We would advise against choosing the letters A or B however, as these were traditionally used by Floppy drives and may not detect correctly in very old programs. Check the below before proceeding. FAT32 and exFAT can be useful if you need to move the hard drive to a machine that uses a different operating system later.
You can set a custom Allocation unit size to help optimize the performance of the drive and balance wasted space but this is only really needed in extreme example. This is the name of the new drive as it appears in Windows. Give the new drive a descriptive name so you know what it is later. With the low cost of hard drive space we recommend against using file and folder compression in Windows.
The performance hit and other complications are not worth the space savings in our opinion. Choose your desired file system type, allocation unit size, volume label and hit next. Check the disk management screen again. After the disk is finished formatting this should be almost instant if you chose quick format you should see a drive letter associated with your new hard drive.
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