- Nov 17, 2013
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so, my mobo has 5 SATA ports, and I have a PCI expansion card that has 4 ports (either 4 internal, or 2 internal + 2 eSATA external). but I'm currently only using 4 of the mobo ports (OS, DVD, storage1, storage2). my case can accommodate another few drives easily - even moreso if they're 2.5"-ers since I can use funky brackets.
anyhoo, point is - what should I do with the excess SATA ports on the card? the card can do RAID (0,1,01,5,JBOD,Indiv), so I suppose I could pick up a few small used drives and play with RAID, or use it for some automated backup drives, or just ignore it, or hook up a lightbulb to it, or......
only thing I'd NOT do is build a second computer - I have no need for two machines.
ideas?
anyhoo, point is - what should I do with the excess SATA ports on the card? the card can do RAID (0,1,01,5,JBOD,Indiv), so I suppose I could pick up a few small used drives and play with RAID, or use it for some automated backup drives, or just ignore it, or hook up a lightbulb to it, or......
only thing I'd NOT do is build a second computer - I have no need for two machines.
ideas?
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