Older Ivy Bridge build - how many internal HDD's can I have

[ashman70]

Asking this question to folks with the same motherboard as me. Is there a limit to how many internal hard drives I can have? I currently have an external Thunderbay enclosure with four 3TB hdd's. I am wondering if it's possible to move those internally in my system.

 

[Jamesbond007]

Asking this question to folks with the same motherboard as me. Is there a limit to how many internal hard drives I can have? I currently have an external Thunderbay enclosure with four 3TB hdd's. I am wondering if it's possible to move those internally in my system.

Your motherboard has 7 SATA ports, each one of which can connect to one SATA hard disk or device. How many SATA devices (including SSD / Hard Disk / DVD or Bluray drive) are you using internally?

 

[ashman70]

One optical drive and one backup hard drive currently along with my main SSD OSX boot drive, so three devices.

 

[Jamesbond007]

One optical drive and one backup hard drive currently along with my main SSD OSX boot drive, so three devices.

So you can connect 4 more SATA hard drives to your motherboard. Make sure your power supply has sufficient number of SATA power connectors.