Contents
- 1 What type of power connector do all PATA drives use?
- 2 What is the maximum eSATA device cable length?
- 3 What hard drive technology typically implements a 1.8 2.5 or rarely a 3.5-inch form factor?
- 4 At what speed does the SATA 1.0 specification perform?
- 5 What happens if you cable a PATA hard drive incorrectly?
- 6 Is Pata a Molex?
- 7 How many PATA drives can be installed on a system?
- 8 How many hard drives does a PATA drive have?
- 9 What is the minimum number of drives needed to implement RAID 5?
- 10 How many PATA drives can be connected to a single ATA controller?
- 11 How many watts of power does an Intel i7 4790K require at peak performance?
- 12 How many wires does a PCIe connection use for sending and receiving data?
- 13 Which is faster SATA or NVMe?
- 14 Is SATA 2 fast enough for SSD?
- 15 Can mSATA plug into SATA?
What type of power connector do all PATA drives use?
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which SATA variety runs at 6 GBPS? | SATA 3.0 |
| How many devices are supported per SATA controller channel? | 1 |
| How many ATA devices can be connected to most PCs? | 40 |
| Modern PATA drives use a ____ connector for power. | Molex |
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What is the maximum eSATA device cable length?
The eSATA or external cables are designed to bring standard internal SATA drive performance out of the PC. Using a shielded cable with a maximum length of 2m, these high specifcation cables comfortably outperform both the more traditional USB and IEEE 1394 technologies.
What hard drive technology typically implements a 1.8 2.5 or rarely a 3.5-inch form factor?
Flash memory-based solutions are typically packaged in standard disk drive form factors ( 1.8 -, 2.5 -, and 3.5 – inch ), or smaller unique and compact layouts because of the compact memory.
At what speed does the SATA 1.0 specification perform?
1.0 has an actual transfer rate of 1.2 Gb/s (150 MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 1.5 Gb/s is similar to that of PATA/133, but newer SATA devices offer enhancements such as NCQ, which improve performance in a multitasking environment.
What happens if you cable a PATA hard drive incorrectly?
What happens if you cable a PATA hard drive incorrectly? You can destroy that hard drive. The data will be erased, but the hard drive will be okay. The system will not be able to communicate with that hard drive.
Is Pata a Molex?
Molex is the power connector for PATA hard drives. This connection is what extends out from the power supply for the PATA device to draw power.
How many PATA drives can be installed on a system?
Most computers will have two ATA channels (primary and secondary), so we can have up to 4 ATA drives on our system. The thing is, when we connect two drives on one cable we also have to configure the master/slave relationship between those two devices.
How many hard drives does a PATA drive have?
Hard Drive Technologies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many PATA hard drives can you have on a system with two PATA hard drive controllers? | Each controller supports two drives. |
| How do you differentiate two PATA drives on the same cable? | PATA drives use master/slave jumpers to differentiate between the two drives. |
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What is the minimum number of drives needed to implement RAID 5?
The minimum number of disks in a RAID 5 set is three (two for data and one for parity). The maximum number of drives in a RAID 5 set is in theory unlimited, although your storage array is likely to have built-in limits. However, RAID 5 only protects against a single drive failure.
How many PATA drives can be connected to a single ATA controller?
PATA is a good example of a drive technology that supports up to two devices per motherboard interface. There’s no common hard drive interface type that has a maximum of four devices per interface, although SCSI can easily support four drives on a single interface.
How many watts of power does an Intel i7 4790K require at peak performance?
The peak power consumption of the i7 – 4790K was much greater at 215 Watts versus 130 Watts for the i7 -4770K, but only in a few rare cases did the power peak that high.
How many wires does a PCIe connection use for sending and receiving data?
A PCIe connection uses one wire for sending and receiving. Each of the pairs of wires between a PCIe controller and a device is called lane PCI Express, in fact Peripheral Component Interconnect Express yet regularly observed abridged asPCIe or PCI-E, is a standard sort of association for inside gadgets in a PC.
Which is faster SATA or NVMe?
NVMe can deliver sustained read-write speed of 2000MB per second, way faster than the SATA SSD III, which limits at 600MB per second. Here the bottleneck is NAND technology, which is rapidly advancing, which means we’ll likely see higher speeds soon with NVMe.
Is SATA 2 fast enough for SSD?
Absolutely! The data transfer off of the SSD will run at a maximum SATA – 2 speed to the MBoard & through it to the CPU & etc. This is not all bad. I have a SATA -3 SSD on a Dell Precision M6300 & the MBoard is running at SATA -1.
Can mSATA plug into SATA?
There’s no difference. mSATA is a regular SATA interface over a mini-PCIe connector. I’m agreeing with the Wiki page, early versions of mSATA are not compatible electrically with PCI-e, ie you will need to re-solder and move capacitors around to make it work.