December 29, 200817 yr Anyone know of an adaptor that will allow you to mount the USB drive directly on the motherboard, besides the USB header cables?
December 29, 200817 yr I have a usb expansion bracket similiar to http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=116&sku=13403 (got mine from directron.com). The cables plug into the header port on the motherboard, just like the case header cables. I'm uisng mine to mount my unRaid flash internally. I took off the bracket and zip-tied the port/cable inside my case. I would only go this route if you have no expansion ports left on the motherboard. A PCI or PCI-e card with IDE or sata ports would be preferable (in almost all cases) than mounting via usb internally.
December 30, 200817 yr Author I saw that as well, I was just wondering if there was a little adapter avail instead of the cable.
December 30, 200817 yr I would only go this route if you have no expansion ports left on the motherboard. A PCI or PCI-e card with IDE or sata ports would be preferable (in almost all cases) than mounting via usb internally. Just curious, I'm probably missing something obvious, but why would that almost always be preferable?
December 30, 200817 yr Anyone know of an adaptor that will allow you to mount the USB drive directly on the motherboard, besides the USB header cables? In case you're just not fond of long cable lengths, there's this tiny 2-port adapter. I would only go this route if you have no expansion ports left on the motherboard. A PCI or PCI-e card with IDE or sata ports would be preferable (in almost all cases) than mounting via usb internally. Just curious, I'm probably missing something obvious, but why would that almost always be preferable? I think he's probably thinking of USB hard drive and not the USB flash drive...
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