Due to the very poor placing of SATA ports on the intel dx58so, I have no more room since, I need two ports for my DVD drives, and 2 for my hard drives. The other two are blocked by my 4870. Does anyone know of a way to add more ports? Would a raid controller do that? They're are two Esata ports, but what is the speed like for those? Also I'd really not rather add a USB hard drive.
well to get full sata (3 gbps) you need a pci-e x1 sata card, and i' willing to bet that your 4870 blocks that too right?
Just examples for you, not reccomending at all, don't know anything about them. my sata's are point forward off my mobo.
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