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1 Drive to 2 Ports?

HeyLittleBitty
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Is there a way to use two Sata ports on my Motherboard for One hard drive? I only have sata2 ports, so I was wondering if I used two ports connected to my SSD with maybe some sort of Switch in between which split the workload into the two Sata ports.

 

It would be SSD —Switch< Sata0, Sata1

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3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

why? sata2 vs sata3 makes a very small differnce in performance for an ssd.

Its ~250mb/s vs ~500mb/s, pretty big jump.

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49 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Its ~250mb/s vs ~500mb/s, pretty big jump.

But you don't notice that, you notice iops and latency, and those are about the same on both with a normal ssd. Boot time is less than 1 second different, same with game load time and other tests. You won't notice it.

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So. would Raid0 with two drives on sata2 help instead? Would they go as fast as one drive on sata3??? 

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On 21.5.2018 at 7:14 AM, HeyLittleBitty said:

So. would Raid0 with two drives on sata2 help instead? Would they go as fast as one drive on sata3??? 

yes it would help but at the cost of whenever one drive fails you lose the data on both drives.

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