SATA

I bought the acer aspire 15 e5-575g-53vg laptop off of amazon yesterday. Still waiting for it to arive. It has a sata port that is unused in it where there should be a cd/dvd drive and i was wondering if yall had any suggestions for what to put there other than the obvious lol. I was wondering...

Performance degraded when processing larger files after SSD swap for HD. Why would I have a slow down in Gateway NV53 after replacing hard drive with Toshiba 250gig SSD? My cpu is being occupied up to 100% and RAM is fully booked when I use the laptop with my Epson scanner (after about 10-15...

I am trying to get my new laptop to install windows 7 due to one of my printer drivers only works with windows 7 I managed to boot using my pen drive but i am stuck in the front asking me to install d sata drivers

I have a HDD from a HP laptop. I am using the Sabrent USB-SATA to access the drive via USB. When the external power is connected to the HDD it makes a faint, periodic, “chirping” sound. When I attach the SATA cable from the Sabrent unit, the noise stops, but the drive is not accessible. The USB...

I have an old 2.5" laptop hard drive with an IDE ULTRA ATA-6 interface. The laptop no longer works; so, I need to hook it up to my current computer that has SATA ports. Do you guys have any ideas on what to do? Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I own a ThinkPad E550 whose HDD interface is SATA III. My question is: can I deduce that also the DVD-ROM Drive connection is SATA III (even if the drive itself is, of course, SATA-I)? I'm asking this because I'd like to replace my DVD-ROM with a caddy, in order to install a SSD...

The title says it all, I'm building a portable laptop workstation through Origin, and I'm a bit unsure as to how I should build. I'm working with DAWs such as ProTools and Ableton Live, both 64-bit programs. Now, I usually have up to about 100 channels at least processing Audio and MIDI...

can i upgrade my Asus ROG GL752VW with Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 SATA 500GB and Corsair SO-DIMM DDR4 16GB PC19200 - CMSX16GX4M2A2400C16 (2X8GB) ?

Does anyone know if the optical is connected via SATA 3 for the ASUS N550JX-TH72T? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... I'm thinking about buying this but only if I can install an HDD caddy that accepts SATA III.

I was wondering if it is possible to raid 0 an samsung evo 850 500gb sata and m.2 ssd. The ssds: SATA: http://www.samsung.com/nl/consumer/memory-storage/ssd/850-evo/MZ-75E500B/EU M.2: http://www.samsung.com/nl/consumer/memory-storage/ssd/850-evo/MZ-N5E500BW The site might be dutch. laptop...

I installed a SSD via the odd slot on my laptop, and I have also done this with every laptop I have owned. If i plug the ssd in while the laptop is on and running the ssd opens up no problem. But If i reboot its gone. Until i take it out and put it back in while its on. The laptop I am...

hello, I'm new here, i want to ask a few questions about diy eGPUs. 1. can i use a SATA-expresscard adapter to connect the eGPU?(I don't have an expresscard slot, thunderbolt, and i have only one mpcie slot thats being used by wifi card) 2. If it is impossible, can i replace the Wi-Fi card...

Apologies if this is in the wrong category. A few month ago I dropped my laptop and my computer stopped working, after taking off the back I saw my hard drive has a big crack running right through it. I now get this screen when turning my laptop on: After googling what's wrong I realise that...

hi guys did some research within my budget..using it to play dota 2 csgo and college ..need help choose btw these laptops hp pavilion 14 i7-5500U(4mb cache 2.4-3.0GHz)-nvidia 840m-8gbram-500gb(5400rpm sata)-14" diagonal HD BrightView WLED-backlit (1366 x 768) Dell Inspiron 3542 i7-4510U...

I want to install a second HDD in my laptop. It has 1 HDD and 1 Optical Drive installed. I have opened it up and it uses the 'laptop SATA' connectors to connect both the HDD and Optical Drive to the motherboard. Can I replace the optical drive with a secondary HDD safely? And if so, how do I go...

Months back I took out the cd drive from my old system unit that ran on windows XP. I connected it to my notebook using the SATA to USB adaptor and it doesn't detect it at all! I've tried everything. It doesn't show up amywhere, device manager, disk management....yet nothing! When I first linked...

I know this is a very rare and strange request, and I understand it will take a bunch of parts and a lot of time to get working. I have a MacBook Pro 13" early 2011 I got for a steal with 2 broken USB ports. The issue is purely hardware based, a SMD component on the motherboard is missing. End...