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Adding more SATA ports on the motherboard is not difficult; you can do it yourself in a couple of ways. SATA PCIe Cards Typically, Serial ATA (SATA) connectivity consists of a single drive connected to a single controller port via a single cable. The maximum number of drives in an array is predicated on the controller’s port count. The SATA Port Multiplier (SATA PM) permits a change to that point-to-point relationship via port multiplication technology. Port multipliers allow easy, cost-effective storage expansion and enable the aggregation of the performance of multiple drives as well. I cover this more in the buying guide section below. When buying the right expansion card, you must understand PCIe lanes, version, and throughput rate. However, you must understand some characteristics regarding how the PCIe expansion cards work before getting the best one. You can increase the number of SATA ports on motherboards in various ways, and all these ways are explained below. Adding More SATA Ports Can Help You

This is an answer to a duplicate of this question, where you use a RAID enclosure like this that takes a single SATA input but supports two drives, and run it as RAID 0 so it's a striped drive and you get all the drive space. This solution should offer pretty good speed, especially if you have HDDs that benefit from RAID 0. The big limitation here is that, even though you have different drives, they get viewed as one by the RAID, so you have to work against that. Definitely not hot-swap friendly.I have bought the card and measured it. With the multiplier the power consumption is about 6 watts higher than without. That's way to much in my opinion and that confirmed my assumtion. As you can see, this is contradictory and confusing. Though since the H61 only has ports 0 through 3, the note about 4 and 5 is irrelevant to your board. Jan 31 17:15:35 nightowl kernel: [ 222.066076] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA I've recently been looking into getting a PCIe to SATA expansion card, which I think is otherwise known as a port multiplier (which was the first result in Google when I searched for such an adapter). I need one because I no longer have any free SATA ports on my system, but I'm confused about how exactly these cards work and how I can determine whether my PC will support them.

And that covers everything on how to add more SATA ports to your computer. With the types and factors we’ve shared above, we believe you have a better understanding of how expansion cards work and how to choose the ideal one for your build. Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR-
SATA expansion cards can have x1, x4, or even x8 connectors. Each number after the ‘x’ generally indicates the amount of PCIe lanes the card will occupy.

While they may be inexpensive, they are inefficient and produce low scores on the performance and compatibility board. Unless you’re on a tight budget, we do not recommend that you add SATA ports to motherboard via these expansion cards. The difference in speed between the two versions is huge. While version 2.0 SATA ports offer a maximum transfer speed of three Gbps with a throughput of 375MB/s, version 3.0 SATA ports provide transfer speeds of up to six Gbps with a throughput of 750MB/s. – Number of Slots the Ports HasOne solution to this, would be to use a Sata Host Bus Adapter, which will expand your possible number of drives. There are many types of these, ranging from 2 ports upwards 16 on a single 8 lane card. Support would be subject to the expansion card's SATA controller, not the motherboard's SATA controller, any limitation of the motherboard's SATA controller would not be applicable to the expansion card. This article covered different solutions for how to add more SATA ports to the motherboard. Essentially, there are many solutions.

I've recently been looking into getting a PCIe to SATA expansion card, otherwise known as a port multiplier, because I no longer have any free SATA ports on my system, but I'm confused about how exactly these cards work and how I can determine whether my PC will support them. It all depends on your preference and wallet. Here are the different methods you can use to add additional SATA ports to your PC:A SATA port expansion card with a RAID controller is more expensive and utilizes more PCIe bandwidth. A SATA HBA, also known as a "SATA PCIe card", is a reasonable option for adding small numbers of additional ports. These add an extra SATA controller via PCIe, and do not interact with the onboard controller. Some also offer "RAID" but it's usually just a form of fakeRAID and you're better off using pure software RAID. Look up the SATA controller model for more details. These are typically available in PCIe x1 lane and up.