February 19, 201313 yr I want to install a 3 terrabite hard drive but my motherboard has 3 ports and are all taken by 2 ssd's and a Dvd drive how can I get around this? An option I suppose is to get an external hard drive. Any thoughts anyone? ZORAN
February 19, 201313 yr Do you have any PCI or PCIe slots open? You can buy a SATA controller card if you do.
February 19, 201313 yr Author Do you have any PCI or PCIe slots open? You can buy a SATA controller card if you do. whats a PCI slot? :rolleyes: MB is a MAXIMUS V GENE ZORAN
February 19, 201313 yr That board has more than 3-4 SATA slots. Read the MB manual and look at the diagram. You will see where they all are. A HD connected externally will only perform properly if SATA connected and certainly not USB unless your just using it to store data and not to run programs. If external it will need a power source which usually comes with external drive systems. Either way its much better mounted internaly and use the SATA connections and power connectors available internally. Ron W
February 19, 201313 yr Author very good so I just need a Sata card right, any particular brand? ZORAN
February 19, 201313 yr You already have 6 SATA ports on your motherboard. Your currently only using 3 of them. Use one of the available ports you have already. Do you have the ASUS MB manual? Look at the picture - it will be labelled. Ron W
February 19, 201313 yr very good so I just need a Sata card right' date=' any particular brand?[/quote'] No, as said above, your motherboard has 6 SATA ports. You shouldn't need anything else to connect another SATA drive.
February 19, 201313 yr Drive connectivity on the ROG Asus Maxumus V Gene comes in the form of six SATA ports: four SATA 6Gb/s and two SATA 3Gb/s. Starting at the bottom of the PCB, the first two are the ASMedia-controlled SATA 6Gb/s ports, followed by the Z77-controlled SATA 6Gb/s ports in red and the SATA 3Gb/s ports in black. This configuration supports Raid 0, 1, 5, 10 and Intel Smart Response Technology, Intel Rapid Start Technology, and Intel Smart Connect Technology.
February 19, 201313 yr The 6 ports are on the lower right on your mother board. Jim Driscoll, MSI Raider GE76 12UHS-607 17.3" Gaming Laptop Computer - Blue Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900HK 1.8GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6; 64GB DDR5-4800 RAM; Dual M2 2TB Solid State Drives.Driving a Sony KD-50X75, and KDL-48R470B @ 4k 3724x2094,MSFS 2020, 30 FPS on Ultra Settings. Jorg/Asobo: “Weather is a core part of our simulator, and we will strive to make it as accurate as possible.”Also Jorg/Asobo: “We are going to limit the weather API to rain intensity only.”
February 20, 201313 yr Author Thanks a heap guys appreciate the time and effort, I will purchase my drive now ;-) ZORAN
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