How many hard drives does the motherboard support? I know there are 2 available bays. Can I install 2 SSDs in the 3.5 bay and another HDD in the 5.25 bay?
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You can install as many hard drives as you have available sata ports and power plugs. If you run out of bays, you can just velcro em to the interior of the case. I have an SSD drive for my OS and 3 2 terabyte storage drives. You can use the smaller bays for your SSD
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You should be able to however I would think external drives or sever would be a lot more efficient.
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Yes you can, unlike others I am not going to criticize why you wish to. That is your business. The two inside cages can be removed and you can either mount a ssd or 2.5 inch laptop drive behind the motherboard tray or you can use the two hot swap bays in the front to mount two ssd or 3.5" drives, or 2.5" laptop drives.
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There is only one 2.5 drive bay located in the upper part of the hdd bays. There is another at the floor of the case but it will need 4 screws. Its a good starter case for small to medium size components. There are better cases than this for close to the price. Look into the corsair, nzxt and cooler master cases. They have more room and features.
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To answer your question, yes, there is installation options for the 3.5" drives and the 5.25" drives. The power supply still needs to be fastened in place, along with the fans that you install. (Additional fans, the one the unit came with were already installed.)
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Yes. I have had a computer had a 500GB plus a 1.5TB. And another with 2 SSDs which are relatively small volume and a 2TB HD. As long as you have the power and connectors you are free to add in as many of any size as you want.
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Has anyone actually successfully converted one of the 5.25 bays to 3.5 for a hard drive? I have 9 hard drives and want to see if this would actually fit them all. Thanks
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Yes. It looks like you can put 2 drives in if you want. I suggest an SSD as your boot drive, and this one for storage.
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2 full 3.5" HDD, and a surpirsingly not listed 2.5" SSD support. The SSD support is not a full enclosure like those of the HDDs, but supports it quite well. There is pretty much no cable management at all, although there is space to shove cables behind the HDD cage. And I shoved some inside my spare 5.25 bay. Normal ATX power supply fits perfectly well.
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You can mount six hard drives, whether ssd or 3.5" inside in the two cages. You can also mount two ssd or 3.5" drives in the two external racks, you can finally mount the last hd which can be a 2.5" or ssd behind the motherboard tray for a total of 9 hard drives. Everything is included.
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You can start with two drives and expand it as you get more drives. Furthermore if all bays are full then you can replace older smaller drives with bigger newer drives without losing any data.
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It will do two 2-terabyte drives. Make sure you update to the latest drivers though or it won't.
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1- supports sata 3 up to 6Gbps. Backward compatible to sata 2 (3Gbps) and sata1 (1.5Gbps) specification. 2- No! This is an all in one unit. I'm using 2 64GB SSD drivers and set it up in a raid . It speed up your computer 100x better. It almost instantly the changes to the next window. I like this setup and it is in a nice package.
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It has four bays for hard drives. If it comes with two drives, and you want to have four in there, you will need to purchase two more. I bought mine with no drives but it came with all four bays. It was new when I bought it.
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4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and can be remote booted (not tested by me). 4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and... » Read More 4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and can be remote booted (not tested by me). « Show Less
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Although they both have the SATA 3 6GBs header, you can actually fit an SSD into the taller case. Not much point, though, with a 250GB mSATA main drive already there, unless you've got some other mini SATA device. It's never going to be a speed rig with a 15W TDP processor, so halving the SSD response delay by using a RAID0 won't help much, and it's got 4X USB 3 ports for data. The Intel HD Graphics 5000 is stunning. I heartily recommend this machine.
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Have SATA port por Internal 2.5 ssd support? . Comes with retailer box of intel? box for reseller?
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There are (5) Sata-3.0, 6gb. connections available. And it is possible to have (5) 3.5 hard-drives.