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Can you slave a usb3 drive?

I have a 128 6g/s ssd c:/ drive. I also have another spare 128 6g/s drive. I know that I can slave them together to make one 256 c:/ drive. The problem I have is I only have one 6d/s motherboard port. What is the best way to slave these drives together?

The motherboard also has a usb3 port. Can I use the spare ssd drive connected to the usb3 pot to slave that drive to the editor c:/ drive?

Also what is the best/cheapest way to slave these drives without erasing the data?

I hope this question is clear enough, if not please let me know.

Thanks
John
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>>  I know that I can slave them together to make one 256 c:/ drive.

Not quite sure what you mean here.  You can RAID (not slave) drives to make one bigger drive.  I don't know if that is what you mean.  But you need two ports on the motherboard to do what you want.

Don't understand what you mean by 6d/s port?  What brand motherboard is this?  And what you intend will probably need removing all of your data and reinstalling.
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Perhaps I used incorrect terms to explain my problem. By slave I should have used extend or merge to make two 128gps hard drives into one 256gps drive.

As far as a 6dps hard drive motherboard port I should have called it a sata III interface. 6ds was a typo should have been 6G/s

( SATA III (revision 3.x) interface, formally known as SATA 6Gb/s, is a third generation SATA interface running at 6.0Gb/s. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 600MB/s. This interface is backwards compatible with SATA 3.0G/s interface)

I hope this clears this up

John :-)
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Can a SATA III 6Gps interface drive be extended / merged with a SATA I or SATA II drive? Does that mean that the whole new single drive revert to the slower SATA I or Ii standard?
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The comments given by the respondents discuss the question asked and the general consensus is "No" and reasons given as to why "No".