Sata Controller For Windows 10 Home?

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Hello, I've ran out of sata ports in my motherboard. I use ASUS B150 PRO GAMING/AURA motherboard and in need of 6 Port PCI Sata controller. So I don't want to do any RAID stuff just want more sata ports to add more HDD. I have no idea of sata controller, so I have some qustion.

1. Any PCI/PCIe (I Prefer PCI) Sata cards available that has 6 or more ports which supports Windows 10 Home?
2. Do I need to add battery to sata controller ? Will I have corrupted data or have lossy connection if I don't add it?
3. Will all the HDD I add to sata controller show up individually and work individually or in a single mass drive and work all togather like NAS drive with RAID ?
 
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1: Not even seeing a PCI controller card, PCI Express is better, has more bandwidth to feed multiple devices. This has 8 ports and x4 interface. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAEE50N4890&cm_re=controller_card-_-16-117-214-_-Product

2: No. Then If power drops while writing to a drive yes you will lose what data that wasn't written, not on reads though. A line conditioning UPS would allow the drives to finish all writes if power flickers and allow you to shutdown properly to avoid data loss.

3: It all depends on how you set it up, individual drives, choose raid 1/5/6/10/50/60, or JBOD just a bunch of disks where all the drives act as one large drive.

Of course this is server level, may be overkill for your...
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1: Not even seeing a PCI controller card, PCI Express is better, has more bandwidth to feed multiple devices. This has 8 ports and x4 interface. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAEE50N4890&cm_re=controller_card-_-16-117-214-_-Product

2: No. Then If power drops while writing to a drive yes you will lose what data that wasn't written, not on reads though. A line conditioning UPS would allow the drives to finish all writes if power flickers and allow you to shutdown properly to avoid data loss.

3: It all depends on how you set it up, individual drives, choose raid 1/5/6/10/50/60, or JBOD just a bunch of disks where all the drives act as one large drive.

Of course this is server level, may be overkill for your application.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124070&cm_re=controller_card-_-16-124-070-_-Product 8 port sata and x2 pci express software controller unlike the hardware controller above
 
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Thank you for your replay.
Where to choose ? In Software/Driver or BIOS or something ? I want to use it like my motherboards sata port
 
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There is usually a screen after the bios and before windows loads asking you to enter raid configuration when you have a controller in. kind of like press del to enter bios, more like ctrl r to enter raid on the new screen. Should default to individual ports is a different letter, and you go in to setup a stripe or mirror.
 
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