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Ok i know the title is kinda misleading in someways but im wondering about how to set up some hard drives like im gonna get a samsung 840 evo ssd for my os, a 4tb wd blue for my games and the new seagate 8tb drive for my movies and such now my question is can i just hook these up without any troubles and if they are gonna be a problem can someone give some info on how to set them up without issues and kinda off topic but if i want to add some more hard drives will i need raid? or is that not gonna be a problem i might go with around 5 drives in the future but will everything hook up without a problem without raid because im kinda slow oh how drives and raid works. im in no rush for answers but some help would be useful for my pc build and i want to add all my blu ray movies on the seagate and might need more space for them(i have a bluray collection addiction) and i want all the movies outta the way instead of a massive shelf in the way.
 
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Yes, and with some spare as well. It comes with 6 SATA ports from the chipset (which support RAID), although you won't be able to use SATA Express or M.2 drives any more. The Z97 PRO also has 2 SATA ports from the ASMEDIA controller, however I would advise against using these, as the performance tends to be lower than the ones off the chipset.
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RAID is for pairing drives to act as one drive, depending on which raid you run it can give you redundancy or extra space and faster read/write times. One suggesting is that you install the SSD by itself first, and install your OS, power down once it's completely done installing, then install the other drives. That can save some headaches.
 
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so theres no need for raid then? lol i was always confused my the different raids there are. so i can hook up 5 hard drives with no problem then? if so thats awesome because i dont know jack about raid thanks for clearing that up for me. anything else i should be aware of? i dont need everything to be all one drive i want separate ones to identify which drive im using.
 
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Considering that you don't understand a lot about drives, I really suggest you stay away from RAID systems. There are many, all of them very different, and some of them hard to manage.

Your motherboard will have a fixed number of SATA ports (or connectors) on it and you can plug ONE hard drive into each. It's common to have 4 or 6 such ports. Some mobos have a second set or 2 to 4 ports (controlled by a different controller chip) and the second set needs to be Enabled in a configuration system called BIOS Setup. Sometimes this also requires that you install a device driver for those extra ports in Windows.

If you need more hard drives that your mobo accepts, you can buy another SATA port controller card and install it in a PCIe slot.

If you plan to use hard drives over 2 TB in size, you really should be using a mobo that includes a feature called "UEFI Support". You also should be using a modern version of Windows - 7 or 8 or 8.1. Large hard drives MUST be set up up using the newer GPT type of Partitions, not the older MBR style.

You have not talked at all about backups. If you're going to store such huge volumes of valuable files on hard drives, what will you do if one of them fails? You need a system to make backups regularly. There are lots of things to know about how to do backups properly, so read up on that.
 
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Yes, and with some spare as well. It comes with 6 SATA ports from the chipset (which support RAID), although you won't be able to use SATA Express or M.2 drives any more. The Z97 PRO also has 2 SATA ports from the ASMEDIA controller, however I would advise against using these, as the performance tends to be lower than the ones off the chipset.
 
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