P5N-MX Extra Hard Drives

[Xander314]

I want to get a second hard drive for my PC. I can see four SATA ports on the motherboard (ASUS P5N-MX), two of which are used by a hard drive and BDROM drive. This leaves two SATA ports free.

However, according to the motherboard specifications, it only has two SATA ports all together. Are the other two not in fact SATA ports, or maybe RAID only?

P5N-MX Specifications
http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5NMX/#specifications

Thanks in advance for any help
-Xander

 

[Donmige]

"- 4 x SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function" says here that it supports 4 sata components. I would get an additional HD if I needed it.

 

[Xander314]

"- 4 x SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function" says here that it supports 4 sata components. I would get an additional HD if I needed it.

I guess so... it must be a mistake on the specifications list that it only says '2x SATA'.

 

[Xander314]

(I had looked at the main specifications list rather than the summary at the top)

 

[Xander314]

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