A technician is going to install 6 SATA drives into a PC; however, the PC only has four SATA ports on the motherboard. Which of the following is the QUICKEST course of action to install all six…

Question

Options

• AUse an IDE to SATA adapter on the remaining two drives
• BInstall a new motherboard with six SATA ports
• CInstall a SATA expansion Card
• DRun the drives in RAID to work around the port shortage

• A
  5% (2)
• B
  16% (6)
• C
  70% (26)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

Installing a SATA expansion card (a PCIe SATA controller card) is the quickest solution - it takes minutes to install and immediately adds additional SATA ports. IDE-to-SATA adapters (A) are for connecting older IDE drives to SATA controllers, not for adding SATA ports, so they would not solve the problem. Replacing the motherboard (B) is an extreme, time-consuming solution involving removing and reinstalling all components. Configuring RAID (D) does not increase the number of available ports - RAID is a data redundancy/performance configuration, and you still need enough physical ports to connect each drive. A SATA expansion card directly addresses the root problem (insufficient ports) with minimal time and effort.

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