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ASUS Prime B250M-A Drive support

I have a PC with the following components.

ASUS Prime B250M-A

intel Core i3-7100
intel stock cooler

8GB of Crucial DDR4-2400

Windows 10 PRO

GALAX GTX 1050

Kingston 128GB M.2 SSD

Hitachi 250GB 7200rpm Hard drive

EVGA 450W 80+ Bronze Non Modular Power Supply

Fractal Design Node 605

Sony Blu-ray Optical drive

2 Noctua NF-F12 ippc 3000RPM fans

 

I want to add 2 H3IKNAS600012872SWW HGST 6TB Drives to double it as a nas

Will it work?
Local Network Speed: 1Gbps connected with a Netgear GS308 8 port switch

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Granted you have the space and cables to do it, yes, it will work. 

PC Specs - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D MSI B550M Mortar - 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3600 @ CL16 - ASRock RX7800XT 660p 1TBGB & Crucial P5 1TB Fractal Define Mini C CM V750v2 - Windows 11 Pro

 

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Just now, NelizMastr said:

Granted you have the space and cables to do it, yes, it will work. 

I have tonnes of SATA cables laying around

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Yep, you're all good. Assuming you also have the power cables. In fact, you should be able to RAID them on that board as well if you want, so you're all set. Just make sure to set the SATA controller mode in the BIOS to RAID from AHCI if you plan to do that.

Main Rig: R9 5950X @ PBO, RTX 3090, 64 GB DDR4 3666, InWin 101, Full Hardline Watercooling

Server: R7 1700X @ 4.0 GHz, GTX 1080 Ti, 32GB DDR4 3000, Cooler Master NR200P, Full Soft Watercooling

LAN Rig: R5 3600X @ PBO, RTX 2070, 32 GB DDR4 3200, Dan Case A4-SFV V4, 120mm AIO for the CPU

HTPC: i7-7700K @ 4.6 GHz, GTX 1050 Ti, 16 GB DDR4 3200, AliExpress K39, IS-47K Cooler

Router: R3 2200G @ stock, 4GB DDR4 2400, what are cases, stock cooler
 

I don't have a problem...

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2 hours ago, tarfeef101 said:

Yep, you're all good. Assuming you also have the power cables. In fact, you should be able to RAID them on that board as well if you want, so you're all set. Just make sure to set the SATA controller mode in the BIOS to RAID from AHCI if you plan to do that.

Motherboard doesn't support RAID according to the ASUS website

I can use software RAID in windows though

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2 minutes ago, felix920506 said:

Motherboard doesn't support RAID according to the ASUS website

I can use software RAID in windows though

well that's what i get for not googling the difference between the "a" and "plus". just put a rig together last night with the plus, and it had raid support, and i guessed that'd be the same. 

yeah, software raid or a RAID card would be what you'd need then. don't write off the raid card instantly though, sometimes you can get em super cheap from companies selling off old stuff. Hell, i got a quad intel gigabit NIC for like 30 bucks last year. freaking great.

Main Rig: R9 5950X @ PBO, RTX 3090, 64 GB DDR4 3666, InWin 101, Full Hardline Watercooling

Server: R7 1700X @ 4.0 GHz, GTX 1080 Ti, 32GB DDR4 3000, Cooler Master NR200P, Full Soft Watercooling

LAN Rig: R5 3600X @ PBO, RTX 2070, 32 GB DDR4 3200, Dan Case A4-SFV V4, 120mm AIO for the CPU

HTPC: i7-7700K @ 4.6 GHz, GTX 1050 Ti, 16 GB DDR4 3200, AliExpress K39, IS-47K Cooler

Router: R3 2200G @ stock, 4GB DDR4 2400, what are cases, stock cooler
 

I don't have a problem...

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I just want to run RAID 1

Even Linus was using software RAID to stripe his RAID 5 arrays together

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3 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

well that's what i get for not googling the difference between the "a" and "plus". just put a rig together last night with the plus, and it had raid support, and i guessed that'd be the same. 

yeah, software raid or a RAID card would be what you'd need then. don't write off the raid card instantly though, sometimes you can get em super cheap from companies selling off old stuff. Hell, i got a quad intel gigabit NIC for like 30 bucks last year. freaking great.

I can get an LSI 9260-8i for like 15% of the MSRP BRAND NEW

but there aren't any PCI-E slots on the board (except the one with the GTX 1050) that would fit the RAID card.

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12 minutes ago, felix920506 said:

 

I can get an LSI 9260-8i for like 15% of the MSRP BRAND NEW

but there aren't any PCI-E slots on the board (except the one with the GTX 1050) that would fit the RAID card.

it should work in a smaller slot, just with less bandwidth. if the slot has a back you can saw it off. 

Main Rig: R9 5950X @ PBO, RTX 3090, 64 GB DDR4 3666, InWin 101, Full Hardline Watercooling

Server: R7 1700X @ 4.0 GHz, GTX 1080 Ti, 32GB DDR4 3000, Cooler Master NR200P, Full Soft Watercooling

LAN Rig: R5 3600X @ PBO, RTX 2070, 32 GB DDR4 3200, Dan Case A4-SFV V4, 120mm AIO for the CPU

HTPC: i7-7700K @ 4.6 GHz, GTX 1050 Ti, 16 GB DDR4 3200, AliExpress K39, IS-47K Cooler

Router: R3 2200G @ stock, 4GB DDR4 2400, what are cases, stock cooler
 

I don't have a problem...

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