Hi all,
I'm going through a storage upgrade process at the moment and I'm trying to figure out what my best option is right now. Here's where I'm at:
My motherboard has:
1x SATA III (6GBPS) - currently with a SSD/boot drive
3x SATA II (3GBPS) - currently with 2x 2TB HDD (6GBPS) & DVD drive/writer.
2x PCIe X1 (?) - spare
2x USB3 external - spare
I've just bought a new 4TB drive and I'd like to RAID (or windows storage group thing) the other 2x2TB drives listed above to create a backup but I'm now out of SATA ports.
Other than buying a new mobo, what will get me the quickest data speeds...do I:
- Buy a PCIeX1 SATA card (2/4port? and what speed? 6gb? 3gb?)...I fear PCIe isn't quick enough to utilise a fast card/drive...
- Buy the above PCIe card, plug in the DVD drive and use the now spare 3GB SATA port for my new drive
- Buy an external USB3 raid/nas (would rather the drives stay inside the machine)
Am I right in thinking that spinning disks won't utilise a 6GB SATA connection even though they may be geared up for it?
Help please...
Thanks in advance.
I'm going through a storage upgrade process at the moment and I'm trying to figure out what my best option is right now. Here's where I'm at:
My motherboard has:
1x SATA III (6GBPS) - currently with a SSD/boot drive
3x SATA II (3GBPS) - currently with 2x 2TB HDD (6GBPS) & DVD drive/writer.
2x PCIe X1 (?) - spare
2x USB3 external - spare
I've just bought a new 4TB drive and I'd like to RAID (or windows storage group thing) the other 2x2TB drives listed above to create a backup but I'm now out of SATA ports.
Other than buying a new mobo, what will get me the quickest data speeds...do I:
- Buy a PCIeX1 SATA card (2/4port? and what speed? 6gb? 3gb?)...I fear PCIe isn't quick enough to utilise a fast card/drive...
- Buy the above PCIe card, plug in the DVD drive and use the now spare 3GB SATA port for my new drive
- Buy an external USB3 raid/nas (would rather the drives stay inside the machine)
Am I right in thinking that spinning disks won't utilise a 6GB SATA connection even though they may be geared up for it?
Help please...
Thanks in advance.