Number of drives allowed by motherboard

[Carlis]

If mother board says
number of Seriel ATA channels 7
number of IDE channels 1

then this simply means you can connect 7 SATA and one IDE to it, right?

 

[elkinm]

You can connect 2 drives to the IDE channel. Most IDE channels do towards optical drives as most are still PATA, as well as old hard drives. You are correct about the 7 SATA drives.

 

[NuAlphaMan]

Originally posted by: elkinm
You can connect 2 drives to the IDE channel. Most IDE channels do towards optical drives as most are still PATA, as well as old hard drives. You are correct about the 7 SATA drives.

:thumbsup:

 

[Carlis]

Thanks

 

[Seekermeister]

Seven seems like a strange number of SATA ports. Which motherboard is this? Or did you simply pick an arbitrary number?

 

[Carlis]

Thats how it read.
ASUS P5B DELUXE P965 SKT-775 ATX

I just picked one as an example

 

[Seekermeister]

Actually, it has 8. But one of them is external.