How to add more hard drives than available SATA ports?

[yebiggah]

So i have an old MoBo and the new shiny 1060 6gb blocks half of it's SATA ports. There is no way to get a cable in there, not an angled one, not anything. So i basicly have 2 slots and would need at least 1, or maybe 2 more HDDs to add . . .or an SSD but that's besides the point.

Does anyone know of an extension or like a splitter, i don't know, that will help me add an additional drive in my rig?

 

[rolli59]

There are add on sata cards on the market https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100160874%20600022029

 

[Math Geek]

you can't split a single slot but you can add more slots through a pci card. they make plenty of those and they are fairly cheap.

here are a bunch of options. some have esata or usb on the outside as well as sata ports on the inside.
check it out here from newegg

note that they make both pcie and pci cards depending on what you have available.

 

[yebiggah]

I've just spent an hour searching some pcie extensions for SATA . . . and want to know what i just noticed? the 1060 is blocking the remaining god damn pci slots on my MoBo too . . . .jesus f-ing christ..... that's it, a new MoBo is in my future...

 

[Math Geek]

as i noted there is also pci cards if you have one of those open to use. unless you're using a mini-itx or other super small mobo there pretty much has to be some kind of open slots to use. i can't think of an atx board that a single card would cover most of the sata ports and all the extra slots as well. just not physically possible unless the gpu is a quad-slot width!!!