1tb sata drive question

matchthis

Bought a 1tb sata drive thinking i had a connection for another one. Turns out not to be the case and don't want to see it go to waste. Is there anything like a splitter or something i can get that will let me get use from it? The drive i have in it is the boot drive. Was thinking bout getting this though...
http://cgi.ebay.ie/3-5-HDD-Enclosure-SATA-To-Combo-E-SATA-USB-Only-18-99_W0QQitemZ220451883295QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_HardDriveEnclosures_RL?hash=item3353f4c91f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1301%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

Any help apreciated as i'm new to this

matchthis

Anyone?

kenon

I'm not sure if the link you posted is just an enclosure or an enclosure and some sort of sata to usb converter. If it has a converter then your flyin!

If it doesn't then I'd consider a new mobo with more sata connections.

Effluo

I'd figure that if your motherboard doesn't have the ports then you can't run the two hard-drives together....

The think you linked to would make your hd into an external harddrive... You could still store music, photos on it but access to it would be much slower and you can't run programs from it either.

All is not lost however!
I'm going to suppose that the drive you have in the pc at the moment is not as big as the terrabyte drive.

You could just take out the old drive and stick in the new, then do a fresh install of windows...

You could also then go ahead if you wanted to buy the enclosure and then run the smaller drive as an external.

Myrddin

Or just get a SATA2 controller card - http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=MMEV930599

Just install the controller card and plug the drives into it as you would your mobo....