Yes. You can add as many hard drives, or other sata devices (DVD burners etc) as will fit into your case, or until you have no more sata connectors free.
Traditionally motherboards were built with 2 on board IDE ports. However more and more mother board's are coming with 1 due to the use of SATA ports. The one IDE port i usually used for the CD-ROM.
That depends on chipset. For instance Intel X58 can support up 4 ports natively + 2 for marvell controller. Server motherboards have more SATA ports available. Newer generation motherboards can support 6 and more SATA port natively.
This would depend on the motherboard. I have seen older motherboards that were still trying to use IDE as a primary but had 2 or 3 SATA connections. Newer motherboards have primarily SATA connections.
The easiest way, is to purchase a SATA PCI card. Install this card inside the pc, and it will allow x amount of extra sata devices, depending on how many the card will support. Hope this helps
The other names of "motherboard" are main board, system board, planar board & logic board. Because, a mother board contains significant sub- system such as the process and other components. It is the main printed circuit board. It holds many of the crucial electronics components of the system such as CPU, memory and provides connectors for other peripherals. networkrepairs.ca
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Many different mother boards have been made to accomidate the latest microprocessors. I would say there have been 32 different mother board designs for handling the slot numbers of the processors.
System Board is also the MotherboardA motherboard is the central printed circuit board (PCB) in many modern computer and holds many of the crucial components of the system, while providing connectors...
The other names of "motherboard" are main board, system board, planar board & logic board. Because, a mother board contains significant sub- system such as the process and other components. It is the main printed circuit board. It holds many of the crucial electronics components of the system such as CPU, memory and provides connectors for other peripherals. networkrepairs.ca
There are many components on a mother board. 1. CPU Socket 2. RAM slots 3. North Bridge Chip Set 4. South Bridge Chip Set 5. BIoS Chip/s 6. Embeded Disk Controller/s 7. Disk Connectors (SATA/IDE/SAS) 8. USB/Firewire pin outs 9. Possible Network Port 10. Power switch/reset. speaker, hard drive light, pin out 11. Expansion Card slots 12. I/O Connector Backend (additional USB ports) Possible Sound ports, Video Ports, PS2 style keyboard and mouse System could also have built in video, sound, various jumpers to set certain board conditions. there will also be multiple fan power connectors and at least one molded connector for power.
Many times an electronics circuits can not fit into one printed circuit board (PCB) either due to electrical or mechanical or other system design constraints or considerations. In such cases, there is many times one PCB is fixed on top of another board generally through mating connectors or a flex. circuit/cable. In such cases, the smaller board placed on a main board (mother board) is called a daughter board. In same sense all the boards plugged in the computer motherboard sockets are daugher boards. - Neeraj Sharma