Solved 3 Hard drives in series?

[djpete]

I had 2 hard drives in series. c and d drive and also one external hd
I changed the main one to SSD and left the old one in there.

I was thinking can I use the old one as a 3rd Hard drive?

I did notice that the cable (SATA) had three connectors in line, just one cable.

So question is..
Can I just move the main c drive ssd to the first cable connector
reconnect the old hard drive to the second connector and connect my 3rd hd to the 3rd connector?

I read that 2 is the limit but I think that is for older machines.

Thanks in advance

 

[samuria]

The old ide you could only have master and slave on one port but if you have sata and 3 ports you can have 3 drives some maybe special ports for raid or other we realy need make model of the motherboard to tell you for sure

 

[djpete]

thanks yes it had just one cable with 3 connectors inline. Can I just add the c drive ssd to the first inline and then the other 2 after that? Will it be able to work out that the first is the boot drive?
Also the second will have the old OS on it too until I start the PC and remove the files. Could that cause an issue?
I will double check but I am sure there were 3 inline connections on the cable.

 

[samuria]

Its rare to have multi connections on one cable its normally 1 cable to 1 port is yours like this

 

[djpete]

mmm I DO remember that it was one cable with three inline connections.
Will have another look and give it a go.

 

[djpete]

ok got pics.......one min

 

[djpete]

Pics. You can see the extra plug too..

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0uOLnDFqzB3Q3lUZk5PNEJpTE0

 

[djpete]

I think there is a power wire and data wire inline spare so hoping can just move c ssd drive up to front add second drive to 2nd inline and add 3rd drive to third position. Computer will rec os first drive which is c drive and boot up and then all i do is removed the old os files from the second drive and use it for data backup etc after format

 

[djpete]

so connect ssd to the 2 plugs as circled..

 

[samuria]

There seems to be 6 ports on the MB so you should be able to have 6 devices

 

[djpete]

so go with my plan and just add c drive to first inline cable as circled in pink, and other hard drives after that?

 

[djpete]

went to pc shop and needed a data cable. red one.
All I do it hook that into extra port and use power from that inline cable I speak about. Make sure c drive is using port 0 and should be good to go.
Turning off pc to do now... will report back

 

[djpete]

reboot successful. Just looking around now and hopefully can remove the os from old drive

 

[djpete]

mmm the disk drive has signature collision with other drive so is offline...

 

[djpete]

so right clicked and put it online and then reformatted it. Looking good...

 

[djpete]

just adjusted the drive letters so its logical and all went to plan!
yee ha

 

[djpete]

thanks for the help!!