SATA Card noob

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irishBoiler

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I have a Dell Optiplex GX520 Slim tower desktop. I need a SATA card to control 2 hard drives. There supposedly are 2 sata ports on it already, but it looks like one of them was never put on.

Can anyone find me a sub $60 SATA card so I can run 2 hard drives at once? I don't need RAID.

Thanks
 
Thanks, but I was actually looking for someone who knew if I needed a PCI or PCIe card, that's why I listed the desktop model. I have found conflicting information on if there is a PCI-e slot or now, so I was hoping someone more knowledgable would know.
 
The key google search term is "expansion" and in this case "GX520 expansion"

Which leads us to this page: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/solutions/en/optiplex_highlight?c=us&l=en&s=gen

As per dell it has a PCIe x1 slot.

You can confirm this by popping open your case and peering inside. If you see a slot that's about 1/3 the width of a pci slot, then it's probably a PCIe x1 slot. It'll look like the one below the orange slot in this picture.

Hmm, come to think of it, you may need a riser card with that case, hopefully someone else can chime in with their experience, hope i got you a little closer though :eek:
 
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