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Questions tagged [sata]
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Do I need to buy additional devices to make the best of SATA express?
The motherboard I am looking at is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130892, which supports SATAe. This is a new term to me. I've done some research and am only able to understand that SATAe can make the R/W of my SSD faster.…
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Secure erase doesn't work with my hard drive
I have a 2TB hard drive with a MB2000GCWDA driver. When I run secure erase on the drive from Parted Magic, I get the error "This routine can only be run on disks supporting the Security Mode feature set." On Amazon, the MB2000GCWDA is listed as a…
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SATA Expansion Card
I've been struggling to install an nVidia RTX 3050 card in my machine and keep running into hiccups. The latest hiccup, now that I've got everything else settled, is that the card doesn't quite fit. It would, except that it wants to be on top of the…
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Need pointers for SATA to USB 3.0 / eSATA cable or converter WITHOUT power supply
I have a desktop 3.5" HDD and a desktop DVD drive. I also have the SMPS/power supply, all the power cables and the internal SATA cables with me. All these parts are taken out of my old desktop (I threw away the RAM, Processor and Motherboard). I had…
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