July 12, 20178 yr I bought a new to me tower. It is a Fractal Design Define R4 Silent ATX Mid-tower Computer Case Pearl Black, it has lots of room in this one for a home use machine should do me just fine I have also new MB and CPU not high end but again this is only going to run Plex and a few VM's that will only run on demand as I need them and I am not much of a gamer. I have 32 gigs of Gskill ram DDR3 1333 to use in it also from the machine I am using now new mother board is GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 6.0) AM3+ AMD 760G + SB710 USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128565 new CPU is AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM3+ new PSU Rosewill Valens Series 600W Gaming Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold Certified, Single +12V Rail is this sata card what I need to add 4 more drives to this machine https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040702&p_id=2667&seq=1&format=2 or look up Product # 2667 if there is a better card please advise. I do have a pro license Thanks for help Edited July 12, 20178 yr by rott
July 12, 20178 yr Community Expert That's an old PCI controller and a very bad idea, get a PCIe controller, there are no great new choices for 4 ports, you can get an used Adaptec 1430SA for like 20$ or get an 8 port LSI controller, avoid newer Marvell controllers.
July 12, 20178 yr Author what do you think I should use if I want to run 8 port and a 4 port card the HDD will mostly be 2T and 3T drives used for storage of videos and pictures and some VM stuff . Thanks for the help
July 12, 20178 yr Community Expert Any LSI SAS2008 based controller, 9201-8i, 9211-8i, IBM M1015, Dell H310, etc
July 12, 20178 yr There is an LSI SAS9201-16i that handles 16 internal drives, as well as a -16e that handles 16 external drives. You could get one of them and save a slot.
July 12, 20178 yr Author very expensive card I think I will buy the LSI 8 when that is filled up I will get a 4 is there a better mother board to buy that is around $100 that would benefit me for wanting to have this case full of hard drives I can use the above MB and cpu in a different box
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