Noob question. Pic only shows 3 satas. Does that mean I canonly use my blu ray drive, 250gb SSD and a 3.5" HD. Or could I split it to add more 3.5"s?
2014991
On each sata cable you can plug 3 devices ie:3 cables x 3devices each = 9 total. Hope this helps
2014992
The SATA power cables that plug into the power supply have multiple SATA power connections. You can't go wrong with that power supply. It is quiet, so once you install it and you don't hear the fan running, don't worry that's the way it's designed. The fan runs based based on the demand of power it is delivering. Hope this helps.
1968406
Yes. I installed one. There's a slot to add a second HDD but it would just put SSD in it.
1005258
Hi, This unit only have 1 3.5" HDD bay and it is already used. No more extra bay for expansion.Thanks, PCrush
78358
Mine came with two physical SSD drives and one physical hard drive. They split the hard drive into two logical drives. So you start out with 4 logical drives.I logically combined the two SSD drives into one and removed the partitioning of the hard drive (folk on the ASUS forum told me how to do that). For that matter, I replaced the original 5400 rpm hard drive with a snappier 7200 rpm drive. So at this time my machine has only two logical drives - I like it better that way.HTH
220206
You can add up to 2 mSATA drives which are SSD technology, they just go into specific mSATA slots instead of a regular SATA slot.
2005135
Last i read it will suppourt 3 tb drives. Dont know if it will take 4 tb drives.
1864509
I just plugged 1ssd and one sata drive. I think two ports are hight speed but I dont remenber. whats the plan with that huge setup?
1567104
I think it might be difficult to have two 3.5 drives in this case. I have one 3.5" 3TB Drive and two 2.5" drives. One is the boot SSD and the second is a notebook drive. The 2.5" drives are sitting where the DID would go which I don't have installed.
2136363
To be honest with you, IDE to SATA 3 - why? That IDE interface is sooooooo slow it would bottle neck the speed poential of this SSD drastically. I question SATA1 being used with SSD. Time to upgrade the PC.
1583843
A standard optical drive is fine. If you have a very tall CPU heatsink AND a long drive there might be problems. I'm using the stock heatsink (3770k), somewhat tall RAM, and a standard sized blu-ray burner and everything fits just fine.
2102584
Any internal SATA drive will work fine. DVD or BLU-RAY. If you are using multiple drives, it's best to get the same brand and model for best results.
1597841
I don't think they HAVE to be identical, but I think it is good policy to at least make sure that they are all the same size. The smallest disk in the set will cause the system to ignore any space on other volumes that go beyond that smaller size. To stick a 500GB drive in a box that has three other larger drives should give you a 2 TB box (4 X 500). Seagate might be unhappy about this, but if you stick a WD drive in their box the system should be able to make it go. The drive is compatible with SATA or it isn't, right? Warranty is another matter. That WD drive would almost certainly void your waranty. But if the box is under warranty, they should give you the correct replacement drive,
2035796
I have a 1TB drive in it currently hosting my VMware ESXi Server. And it has I believe 3 or 4 sata ports on the mother board if I remember correctly. Because I have an sata dvd drive and two hdds in it currently with one other sata port available if I remember correctly.
584990
There is a 5.25 bay for your optical drive. There is a 2.5 spot on the bottom of the case in front of the psu. Then there are 2 bays that will hold a 3.5 drive (or two 2.5 drives each). So you will be short a 2.5 bay. There is a lot of space though so you might be able to rig something up for a tiny 2.5 drive.
1666227
I purchased the 2-drive version, but if the same thing applies to this as other 4-drive NAS's, you'll want to install them at least in pairs (if doing RAID 0 or 1). If you're going to want RAID 5 (and if the 4-drive unit supports it, which I assume it does), you'll want to install all 4 for best results. Edit: The 4-drive NAS's I've used only allow for 2 arrays, so don't plan on having 4 separate single-drive arrays.
1026674
I'm going to answer this assuming you know you can repurpose slots (IE: get a kit to mount a 3.5" drive in a DVD slot, mount an SSD on the 3.5" drive sleds, etc).SSD: 21TB HD (assuming 3.5" form factor): 3DVD drive: 2So yes, 2 SSDs, a 1TB drive (even if it's 2.5", as there are mounting screws to attach a 2.5" drive to a 3.5" sled), and a DVD drive will all fit in this case.
399818
Yep. No problem. I did, I actually did a SATA Raid with 2 HDD's plus a DVD drive