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Dell 9150 Need to add a 3rd SATA drive bay
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Presently the computer has 2 x 250 GB SATA hard drives. It also has 2 DVD drives and a media card reader. Can anyone provide a recommendation on how to add a 3rd SATA drive bay? Thanks!
Davet50
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September 13th, 2009 08:00
You will need to either add it in an external case with a usb or firewire connection or your are going to have to pull one of your optical s to free up a sata port. unless you add in a PCI SATA driver card.
There are only 4 SATA port on the motherboard.
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There is an available SATA port as the opticals use IDE connectors. Pulling one of the drives would provide space for a 3rd HDD. However, are you aware of any compatible drive bay add-on for this model?
Opticals:
D7191 Assembly, Digital Video Disk Drive, 16X, Half Height, Hitachi Lg Data Storage, CHASSIS 2005...
ND504 Assembly, DVD+/-RW..., 16X, IDE Hitachi LG Data Storage, CHASSIS 2005...