Will this work 2 3.5 SATA drives 1 XP OS and 1 Win7 OS. I want to connect them to my new Win8.1 OS laptop, and boot from either.
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Maybe... You have to make sure to go into boot and set it up so you can have the choice to boot from USB. You might run into the problem of both drives sharing the same cable, but with mine when I go to "My Computer" the drives are listed separately, so it might. Good luck.
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Yes you can have two different OS's while connected to a third each will operate seperatly
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It is my understanding that Win7 can boot from a 4T drive IF your system can use UEFI and you are using the 64-bit version. If you are not booting from the drive, it should work without UEFI. Check with your motherboard manufacturer to make sure.
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I don't see why it wouldn't be. BUT I would suggest a 2tb WD Black instead. Windows defaults to an MBR storage format which I KY supports up to 2.2tb. You can't even partition the other 800gb into another drive. You can change the format to GPT which would allow you to use all 3tb, but it's a pain in the butt and if this will be your only storage drive I would steer clear of doing that. Quick summary: A WD Black should work no problem, but I'd personally go with a 2tb version. Hope this helps!
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Hi Z I would have to agree with R. Davis You may want to check your mother board settings as i had some problems having six sata devices connected. The drive has no drivers that come with it only some cheep burning software if you buy retail, Bulk drives is all i buy.
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I had 10 HDDs connected and every time it boots one or two drives were missing, I RMA'd it and tried another one, same exact issue. This board is having serious SATA issues. Got rid of it and went with different board.
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I have yet to get this to work on a Win7 box. Two difffernet drives, two different Win7 boxes and nary a connection, nada, nothing. Device manager shows the controller and the drive, but no way to access it. Am I missing something?
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This has 8 SATA 6GB/s ports. If you have an HDD compatible with SATA 6GB/s or SATA 3GB/s it will work.
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XP with SP3 should support up to 2.2TB so in theory it should work. I have not tested this on XP but it works on Win 7/8 and Mac OSX systems. For XP systems, my recommendation would be to ensure you have SP3 installed prior to attempting to connect the drive.
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hi, just to clarify, this board has 2 sata III connections which should work with any drive that is compatible with the sata standard. ssd or hdd even a bluray drive. make sure you have the black sata power connectors from power supply too.
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I'm not sure I understand your question. I can tell you that my motherboard has all the correct connections for this device. You need two(2) male SATA connections, one(1) male eight(8) pin USB connection, one(1) PCI-E 1x slot, and one(1) female four(4) pin molex connection.
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This is backward compatible to sata 2 (3gbs). It's not listed as sata 1 (1.5gbs) compatible and even if it was your performance benefit would be drastically limited by sata 1. Your probably better off with a traditional hard drive.
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I contacted startech & they said it will work with up to 6 drives per port with multiport external bays. SO a a total of 12 drivers per card will work. They said they have tested & has been verified. I have 2 mediasonic non raid bays i will try to see if it works when i get the card
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This will work with either SATA or PATA drives, connectors are included for both. I hooked up an old 250 GB.PATA drive as new motherboard had no connectors for it.
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It's the same connection as a 2tb, it's SATA3, any windows 7 or 8 will compatible, the major spec you have to look is your motherboard, it has to be a uefi compatible board to go beyond the 2tb limit, if it's a recent motherboard it probably is, just check your manufacturer and model to be 100%. Search for: 3tb and uefi motherboards.Hope this helps
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I used a 2TB Seagate drive, and had no trouble recognizing it in Win 7. Both USB and E-SATA worked ok for me. Have you tried both interfaces? Might want to try connecting it to another system as well.
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Don't know because each PC has different motherboard and even if it has a mini SATA (msata) connector you'll need to find out if it will boot from that port. Seems like the newest PCs are much more likely to have an msata slot but even when it does, it may not be useable for installing and O.S. I got 2 of these SSDs and most of the PCs I tried it with won't boot from there so I couldn't load Windows and use the other drive for storage as I planned.
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The ad for it states, "Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and Mac OS." I have used it extensively with Windows 7, versions Home, Premium, Professional, and Ultimate on Crucial SSDs and Toshiba, Samsung, Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi and HP HDDs. You should have no problem with Windows 8.1. If the target device on the included USB to SATA cable is not recognized in Windows, then you can boot from the software CD and all drives will be recognized. You just select your source and target drives and proceed with the clone, which takes an hour or two depending on the size of the drives and the amount of data being transferred. Good luck,