As the title mentions I need to add more SATA ports to my Plex machine for extra HDDs (no SSDs). I have a free PCIe 2.0 x4x slot and I was wondering if it is okay if I use a PCIe 4X to 8 or 6 SATA Expansion Card or if it will be too much for the slot to handle. Please advise.
zinkles
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Are you actually going to use all those SATA ports?
How many more drives do you plan on putting in there?
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HDDs only use about 1/4th (max) the bandwidth of a SATA port. It should work. A 2.0 x4 slot has 2GB/s bandwidth -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Comparison_table So you have plenty of bandwidth for 150MB/s HDDs. SDDs could be impacted.
Yes, I will as I have quite a few old drives that are working fine. These are like 2, 3 , 4 or 6 TB drives so nothing massive. Also, I recently got hold of a Fractal Design Define 7XL which will give me space to add these drives.
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