Recent content by ericepp

Your charts show 8 SATA 6gb/s ports on the Asus ROG Maximus XIII Hero board and also the ASRock Z590 PG Velocita. The manufacturer's website shows only 6 for each of these. I wish there were more of these available with 8 Sata Ports. I have a plex server with 8 Hot Swap Bays on my main PC. I...

I had an issue with the USB2.0 front ports not working since I built this computer last year. I finally decided to look into it today. glad I did. I verified that I had connected the USB 2.0 header to the motherboard, which I had. I then took off both side panels and the top panel. I removed the...

Electricians have knockout hole punches that will make a clean hole with no warp age or burrs. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uE4HG8qROUs The set illustrated above is expensive, but you may be able to get one cheaper if thee is a harbor freight in your area...

I plan on using a raid 5. The Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 rev 1.3 board I have has an Intel Controller with 2 Sata III ports and 4 Sata II ports. It also has a Marvell controller with two additional Sata III ports. I can move my boot disk over to the Marvell controller, and run the Raid-5 on the six...

I replied last night, but it didn't send for some reason... I was looking at "Google Shopping" and there were some Dell and HP branded Adaptec cards on there. I recognize them as old school. I am 45 and really only got introduced to PCs as a hobby in the early 90s. I am not familiar with...

I have four 2 TB drives in my PC. They currently have about 5.5 TB of data on them. I want to move them to a server and build a raid 5 array. If I buy 2 more drives and move all my data to 3 drives. Can I build a raid 5 with three drives, and add the other three drives to it after migrating the...