RAID SATA 3 6gb/s - SSD Main Drive Is Running Low On Space?

Sep 27, 2011

My SSD main drive is running low on space .My motherboard supports 2, SATA3 connections.My current drives are SATA2 SSD main drive and a SATA3 1TB media drive.If I were to add 2 SATA3 SSD's in RAID, does that use up both the SATA3 ports on the motherboard? or do they just combine and use 1?

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