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Promise Sata TX4 300 Card for DVD drives
Hi,
I have a TX4 4 sata 2 (3gbs) port raid or regular drives PCI card. My mother board Gigabyte 970Ads3p has 6 (SATA 3 6gps) and I use a Rocket PCIe for 2 of the six drives in the machine. What I would like to do is to put the hard drives all on the system board and use the Promise TX4 to use with a DVD and Blu Ray burner drives. I can use the Rocket Raid in another machine with a bad SATA port. Both of those are sata 2 or lower. Does this work, anyone tried it? I would have thought it would work and the TX4 card would not even have to break a sweat and install a bios or anything since they are just ATAPI drives which should be a standard device. Can't just slap it in as I am waiting for a more powerful PSU as the Enermax 720 watt is doing funny things on power on and boot up. When I calculate what is in there it needs an 850Watt PSU. I have a 1000w arriving Saturday.
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