I ran across this article the other day, and since I’m a DIY geek, it totally caught my interest: ExtremeTech’s guide to building your own switching mechanism for your SATA hard drives.

Computer building and modification site Extreme Tech has a tutorial on making a basic selector switch for the power cables of your SATA drives. Why would you want to do this? By selectively ...

After looking around the net I realized I could set my SATA option in bios to IDE, not ACHI or RAID. The install then went fine, but now I'm wondering if I can switch to SATA without the floppy.

If you need to use an older operating system to access legacy hardware or software for your business, switch the SATA mode to IDE to allow the operating system to recognize the hard drive.

The second issue we ran into had to do with power. Where do you get 24 SATA power connections that feed 5 volts? Standard 4-pin Molex to SATA adapters do not transfer the 5 volt power to the pins ...

There’s a legend for the dip-switch settings printed on the back of ... The VX-2SSD performed as expected—like a SATA RAID array. We used two fast OCZ Vector 180’s configured in RAID 0 ...

Configurable 9-port PCIe 2.0 Compliant Switch and Multi-port SATA 6GT/s PCIe Compliant Host Bus Adapter Pass PCI-SIG Compliance Tests BURLINGTON, Ontario, December 6, 2010 – Gennum Corporation’s ...

Using the PLX PEX 8613 switch as a bridge, P7P55D Premium was able to connect two Gen 2 lanes on the SATA 6Gb/s endpoint to four Gen 1 lanes on the Intel P55 chipset. This flexibility can be found in ...