Question: I have a motherboard with just few SATA slots but have to put quite few hard disks in the box, so naturally I easily ran out of free slots.
I wonder if there are forked cables (I have no idea what would be the name for these cables) so I can connect multiple hard disks to a single SATA slot on the motherboard?
PS. Speed is not essential here as all disks contain archived data.
Answer: As SATA is a point-to-point serial system, you are unlikely to be able to branch or split from a single connect �C your better bet is probably to find a spare PCI slot and fit another SATA card. This will give you more connectors and should have little or no impact on the speed.