On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two
> SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only
> one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8.
How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles?
My tower is pretty full, but some of that is 3 SCSI drives, and I may
at some point change all three to a single SSD drive and put in two
more 4T drives.
> The reason I'm only using 3? This system doesn't have PCI-X, only PCIe
> and PCI. So I want as much as reasonable plugged into the mainboard's
> SATA ports.
Why not use the PCIe slots for SATA to get more speed? I suppose you
could just want bulk where speed is not essential, or they could be full....
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