Adding 7th and 8th drives?

[Smartazz]

Hi all, I currently am using all 6 sata ports on my motherboard and am in need of two more for a 320gb and a 640gb hard drive. Is there a way to so this painlessly and cheaply? Thanks in advance.

 

[smitbret]

Hi all, I currently am using all 6 sata ports on my motherboard and am in need of two more for a 320gb and a 640gb hard drive. Is there a way to so this painlessly and cheaply? Thanks in advance.

Just get a PCIE SATA adpater card.

 

[Elixer]

While you could get a SATA controller card, why don't you just up size the current HDs ?
Do you actually need all HDs to be online at the same time ?

 

[Blain]

I currently am using all 6 sata ports on my motherboard and am in need of two more for a 320gb and a 640gb hard drive. Is there a way to so this painlessly and cheaply?

With your love of spinning platters, I'd get a 4 port card.

Just get a PCIE SATA adpater card.

Cheap & painless. 😉

 

[Cerb]

To add, on the cheap, get a 4-port Marvell card with no RAID support, for the best combination of performance and functionality, w/o having to fuss with anything.

Make sure you've got enough physical PCI-e lanes in your free slot(s), though. A 4x card won't fit in a 1x slot, FI (what the slot is electrically won't matter, in practice, just that the card can be plugged in it).