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[QUOTE=jacko900000;2464334]This is really not intended for long-term usage.
It is (a) slow-speed running at USB 2.0 speeds, and (b) only provides the interfaces so that you can plug in what would have been an internal drive and use it external to the case. It's really intended for very temporary use.
It is primarily intended to support copying data off of an old drive to a new one, when you upgrade to a new machine or upgrade an internal hard drive, etc. In other words it is a "system installer's trick" to migrate data for a customer, from the "old computer/drive" to the "new computer/drive". It will work fine for that, and supports both IDE and SATA drives making them "readable externally" through a USB 2.0 interface on the new machine. In fact it is the perfect device for that purpose.
But it is not really intended as a long-term solution, especially since the hard drive is generally sitting fully exposed on a carton or something temporarily.
You don't have internal space in your machine for another hard drive. So using any PCIe-to-SATA internal adapter device as was suggested to create additional SATA data connections doesn't help, since you have no place to put another internal drive... even forgetting about power supply requirements and cables to feed another internal drive.
My suggestion still stands, of using an external USB 3.0 drive through either an existing USB 3.0 port if your machine has them, or through an add-on USB 3.0 port through a PCIe-to-USB3.0 adapter card if you have a spare PCIe x1 expansion slot open on your motherboard. Might as well spend $18 for the USB 3.0 adapter card and $115 for a brand new 2TB SATA drive packaged in a USB 3.0 external enclosure with its own power, and get the kind of performance speed and capacity you could really use.