I have two Barracuda 1.5TB drives in an external dual bay enclosure with eSATA. The computer is a couple years old and my technical knowledge is mediocre at best. If you can, please suggest a specific controller. The internal drive at the moment is not SATA and I have no plans to put an internal SATA drive in there. Thank you.
Below is basic system info that might help.
Dell 9200
Dell Inc. Dell DXP061
2.40 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo
Bus Adapters:
Intel(R) 82801HR/HH/HO SATA RAID Controller
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
The serial ATA computer bus is a storage-interface for connecting host bus adapters (most commonly integrated into laptop computers and desktop motherboards) to mass storage devices (such as hard disk drives and optical drives). Serial ATA host-adapters and devices communicate via a high-speed serial cable.
so that each SATA device has a plug? I have an Areca ARC-1680 HBA (SAS) with a SFF-8088 external connector, and built a plexi-glass system to house up to 64 sata drives. I just don’t know what to use on the box where the drives are housed so that they each drive gets a sata data cable connection. I already have the cooling and power taken care of. Also have a sweet server that will be pushing this drive array (several raid arays actually)
I know that a SCSI Host Bus Adapter really speeds up a old computer not only because of faster data transfer rates, faster disk but also because much of IO processing is offloaded to the HBA. I was wondering if the latter reason would speed up an old computer with a SATA HBA?
5.25-inch SBC has Core CPUs, four SATA ports
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