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I'm a bit tired of being limited to only 7 hard drives (6 SATA and 1 IDE) by my motherboards available slots. I want to get a SATA PCI expansion card with at least 2 slots on it because that is how many spaces i have for drives left. RAID is not desired at all, so if there is a good card without RAID please tell me about it.

I just want something simple and dependable.

Thanks for your input!

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well you could give me some sata drives to make room on your motherboard ;)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151037

Have you considered a drive box?

I like to keep everything inside the case if I can. Especially since a drive box would require me to use up another electrical outlet on my UPS.

Also that card you posted DaFox is a bit out of my price range.

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I did some looking into this a while ago, and basicly couldn't get the card I wanted here in AUS... I'd love to see what happens to this thread.. I'll keep tuned in.

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couldn't find anything very good except promise controllers ( SATA300 TX4 or SATA300 TX4302 )

I'm not keen of promise myself though it's always better than some obscure third party ...

There are sata PCI cards that have inpouts on the back (outside). You could use one of those and feed the cables back into the case.

You mean this sort of thing?

PCI will be horribly bandwidth limiting for SATA... PCI-E 4x is really the minimum you want. Will try to find some links. XFX used to do a 4 port PCI SATA card (was £20 or something) but I can't find it any more. :?

i wonder if a cheaper solution is to go to 1.5TB disks, rather than adding more disks. I have seen some very expensive controller cards. although, if your adding only 2 ports and dont want something fancy im sure you can find something at a reasonable price

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I suppose two slots might not be enough, if i can use this little doohickey to make a SATA connection externally it might be good.

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