storage Add more drives when I dont have more sata ports or power
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Solved by danalog,
That's a very inefficient way of powering the drives but yes it will work. Instead, consider that the 12V rail on your Dell power supply can run several more drives - I would recommend the SATA power daisy chain cable from StarTech (well built).
When it comes to connecting those drives to the system, a cheapo PCIe SATA card will work just fine - or if you want, search for an LSI SAS RAID card flashed to RAID mode. You will need to invest a bit extra in cables to connect SATA drives to that card if you go this route.
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