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PCI card for extra storage need help

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  • Hard Drives
  • NAS / RAID
  • Storage
  • SATA
  • PCI Express
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August 13, 2013 12:40:37 AM

Good morning guys,

So my problem is I only have 6 Sata ports on my mobo and my Raid, 1 external and 2 optical drives are using that so I need a PCI-e card that I can use for additional storage.

Here are my questions:

Should I rather connect the optical drives to the SATA PCI-e card or is it ok if those HDD's are just for extra storage? Like images, ect?

I am also busy upgrading my storage completely, right now I only have 2 SSD's running RAID 0 & a 4 TB HDD which is my main storage file. I am thinking of just getting more 4TB drives along the way. Would you recommend that or should I rather stick to 2 TB just in case the mechanical drives do damage and I lose data so the loss is minor?

Thanks in advance :) 

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a c 946 G Storage
August 13, 2013 4:06:30 PM

What external ports are available on your system? usb2, usb3, esata, firewire.

What motherbd do you have?

Will you want raid capability on the pcie storage card?
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August 13, 2013 11:30:33 PM

popatim said:
What external ports are available on your system? usb2, usb3, esata, firewire.

What motherbd do you have?

Will you want raid capability on the pcie storage card?


Asus P8Z77 Deluxe mobo.
USB 2.0, 3.0
That's all as far as I know, so no eSATA and no firewire.

To answer your question about the RAID I don't think it's necessary or would you recommend it?

To me personally I think all I would be doing is wasting hours making backups of the 4TB HDD that I'm using right now before formatting it to be used in RAID
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a c 946 G Storage
August 14, 2013 3:03:59 PM

you should already have backup of everything thats on the 4tb drive... what if it dies .. like right now?

The p8z77 deluxe comes in 2 forms.

The -i deluxe has only 4 internal sata ports and 2 esata ports all on intel controller
the -v deluxe has 6 internal sata ports on the intel controller, 2 internal ports on a marvel controller, and 2 esata ports on an ASmedia controller.

Could you please clarify/doublecheck what you have?
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August 14, 2013 11:44:13 PM

popatim said:
you should already have backup of everything thats on the 4tb drive... what if it dies .. like right now?

The p8z77 deluxe comes in 2 forms.

The -i deluxe has only 4 internal sata ports and 2 esata ports all on intel controller
the -v deluxe has 6 internal sata ports on the intel controller, 2 internal ports on a marvel controller, and 2 esata ports on an ASmedia controller.

Could you please clarify/doublecheck what you have?


I would have to check on the box but if memory serves me right it's the V
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