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The raid card in question has only 2 sata ports on the card. I'd like to connect 5 drives to this, and I was wondering how I could achieve that.

The highpoint website states that up to 10 drives can be connected to the card, and hence I assume that up to 5 can be connected to each port on the card.

Thanks.

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For that you want a SATA Port Multiplier. This allows you to connect multiple SATA devices to a single SATA socket - provided the IO controller supports it. It sounds like yours does. Check with the manufacturer first before you invest cash in this though.

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