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Limp Gawd
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EDIT: SO, in reviewing the thread it appears that the T20 only has 4 sata ports. Is that true? If so, you will need to get a cheap PCIe SATA card to plug in all drives. Can you verify that there are only 4 ports?
Yes, just 4. I'm getting ready to buy one now. It's basically the last thing I need besides an OS drive. The only reason I haven't bought that yet is because I want to see if I have something laying around the house that would work first.
For PCIe SATA card, I want to order something through Amazon prime if possible to get it quickly. diizzy suggesting this one:
http://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-Port...=UTF8&qid=1453225423&sr=1-1&keywords=ASM1061&
I was originally thinking I wanted the one with external SATA ports (like this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UJDLW14/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2HRXDCK7SIH44) so I could configure my "free" port to be an external one for easy access. But diizzy suggesting I fill the 2 ports on the card anyway with 2 of my disks, and leave the "free" port on the mobo. I can see merits to this, I just trust the ports on the mobo more than the card.
edit: I just went ahead and ordered the suggested one.
The 1TB drives just jumped from $39.99 to $49.99. There's a $5 off on a 500GB bringing it to $34.99 which I'll get if one of these drives is important over say, any old laptop drive that I have laying around? Can I just pull one of those out and use it instead for my OS drive?
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