PCIe SATA Card / Optical Drive Compatibility

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el.diablo.pollo.de.muerte

Feb 25, 2018
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Hello,

I am looking at building a pc, and have an extra PCIe slot. So I thought "Why not add an optical drive?" I found a few PCIe to SATA cards, but was unsure if they supported SATA for Blu-Ray burners?

If anyone can perhaps tell me if compatibility is possible, and which cards support optical drives (like ASUS BW-16D1HT)?

Thank you
 
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CountMike
Optical drives are no different than HDDs when it comes to SATA bus. They should work anywhere HDDs do. But wha use an adapter, not enough SATA ports on MB ?
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el.diablo.pollo.de.muerte

Feb 25, 2018
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Thanks!

I was planning on using a few cheap drives to occupy the motherboard SATA, but had an extra PCIe slot. I just thought to keep the vital storage connected directly to the board, and extra stuff to go through the extra PCIe. Extra storage will be go through the adapter, but I may have extra SATAs on it.

I am very new to PC building, and still trying to figure everything out!
 
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CountMike

CountMike

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I know what you mean, My MB has 10 SATA and one M.2 port and almost all are occupied. I also use one HDD internal 4 bay, 3.5" and one 2 bay for 2.5" enclosure in which I can change disks even without shutting computer down. Ideal for backups, insert backup HDD, make backup and store it in secure place. Removable SATA bays are ideal for that. If you have many HDDs running all the time it slows down file system.
 
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CountMike

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I'm not a fan of RAID, too many troubles with it. Had it up to here with servers. A good backup plan to offline disks is best policy.
As for too much data stored when not necessary. OS keeps on reading of all of them once you start searching or reading/writing or has to wake them up all the time if left in power saving mode. You'd notice that icons for instance take long time to load. Using AV to scan can take very long time, also indexing and checkdisk.
 
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