“What kind of SATA connectors (e.g. SATA 6Gb) are on the motherboard? Does the system support adding an additional 3.5" SATA hard drive (e.g. has power cables included, place to mount another drive with mounting screws, sufficient power in 500W psu, etc.)?”
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There are two SATA ports on the board. One is used by the 2TB HDD and you have one free SATA slot to use. There is a tool less drive slot that will fit a 2.5 or full size HDD. As far as what SATA version I am not sure. I installed a 2.5 inch WD Blue 500 GB SSD. I had screws laying around and used them. So you will need screws to mount the 2.5 HDD. A regular sized HDD will fit without any tools. And a SATA cable and then you are good to go. I used crystal mark and tested all three drives here are the results if you are interested. Toshiba 256GB NVME: Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1552.370 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 950.387 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 571.597 MB/s [ 139550.0 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 443.453 MB/s [ 108264.9 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 389.429 MB/s [ 95075.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 266.863 MB/s [ 65152.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 44.650 MB/s [ 10900.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 100.562 MB/s [ 24551.3 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [C: 21.9% (52.0/237.2 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/12/06 19:36:13 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) 2TB: Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 210.088 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 200.322 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1.231 MB/s [ 300.5 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1.329 MB/s [ 324.5 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.313 MB/s [ 320.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.240 MB/s [ 302.7 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.438 MB/s [ 106.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.215 MB/s [ 296.6 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [D: 0.0% (0.4/1863.0 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/12/06 19:44:47 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) WD 500 GB Blue SSD: Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 559.985 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 519.731 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 384.194 MB/s [ 93797.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 315.472 MB/s [ 77019.5 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 236.041 MB/s [ 57627.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 217.778 MB/s [ 53168.5 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 28.052 MB/s [ 6848.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 50.650 MB/s [ 12365.7 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [E: 1.3% (6.2/465.6 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/12/06 19:50:59 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) There is no surprise here in terms of speed they are in this order; 256 GB NVME, 500GB SSD, 2TH HDD. I know I probably went a little too much into detail but yes there is a slot for another HDD, a mount for the Second HDD is included the mount will fit a 3.5 HDD without any other screws, but you will need screws if you install a 2.5 laptop drive or SSD. The Power supply is just fine I don't see any issues here as this desktop is not meant to be over clocked.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I believe they are SATA 6Gb connectors, but they are the non-latching variety and because of tight clearance issues they are right angle connectors at the drive. There are a total of two 3.5" slots with trays for regular hard drives. It looks like you would need to provide your own cable for the second tray. Personally, I took the 2TB drive out and added my own drive in there.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.There are two SATA slots on the board.
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