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Is it possible to split a sata connection

I have a computer that I am using for testing custom windows images, and I have needed to access the physical ssd in it a lot, so I wanted to know if there was just a way to split the sata connection, ...
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What does serial really mean? Isn't USB3/SATA actually parallel? [duplicate]

As far as I understand. Serial means data is being sent one by one instead of parallel where multiple bits of data are streamed simultanously. Howewer connections like SATA and USB 3 actually have ...
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Data transfer rate query

I'm looking at a StarTech SATA card here. This is a SATA-III (6Gb/s) card with a PCI-Express 2.0 x1 interface. I'm a little confused here... 6Gb/s = 768MB/s (converter) PCIe 2.0 x1 transfer rate is ...
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What do I need to know before upgrading to a larger data drive?

I'm running Windows 7, and am swapping out my current 1TB SATA HDD for a 2TB one, and want to be sure that I'm following best practices and generally doing things in the smartest, most efficient way ...
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Sharing a hard drive between two hosts, one at a time

I have a large hard drive in my desktop computer. My laptop has an eSata port. Sometimes, I power-up the desktop PC, without booting, just to get juice flowing into the hard drive so that I can ...
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What data transfer rate can I get with an SSD and SATA system? [closed]

I am looking for a solution that can write around 120MB/sec continuously to an SSD drive. Can I get this data transfer rate? The drive can be formatted in FAT32 or EXT2, and I write to it for say 1 ...
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When transferring a piece of data from one hard drive to another, where is the intermittent data stored?

When transferring a piece of data from one hard drive to another, where is the intermittent data stored? How does the computer know which SATA cable to "go up" to the new hard drive? Where is the data ...
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Data transfer from NAS to D: completely soaks my C: drive -- why?

I have a NAS where I have temporarily stored about 2.2TB of data while I rebuilt my “heavy lifter” workstation. My heavy lifter has no SATA on-board, but I use an LSI 9550sx-12 PCI-X RAID card for my ...
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Is to possible to achieve the SATA II's 3Gbps (375MBps) between home network storage and home computers?

Gigabit ethernet only has 1Gbps (125MBps), whereas SATA II has up to three times that rate. Is it possible to achieve the rate of three times Gigabit ethernet connection which is SATA II speeds, ...
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