This is in response to my previous post a week ago from here. I just purchased a cheap-o PCIe SATA Card off of eBay, an SU-SA3004.v2 card with four SATA ports. Here is a Google listing of various images of the card.
This was true-plug & play. AS expected my PC booted up and was able to identify the card. I am using a Gigabyte GA-H270M-D3H with my main PCIe port used for a Sapphire RX 280 video card. That leaves one extended PCIe slot available for the card, which fits securely. I went into the UEFI and saw that there were two boot options: The Kingston 120GB SSD I had connected to it, and the entry for some sort of alternative bootloader, the ASMT109X which is probably the driver itself. Just to test I booted using the ASMT109x entry and instead of a selection it went right to the Kingston SSD with Windows pre-loaded.
I didn't want to risk anything so I rebooted and chose my main Mojave SSD. On the first attempt it got so far in verbose mode but rebooted before loading everything. I selected the Mojave SSD again and this time it fully loaded to the desktop. At first a pop-up appeared saying that the Kingston SSD Was unreadable and had to be initialized. "No big deal" I thought, as I could hook up a Windows backup drive and use it to swap files between MacOS and Windows if needed. However, after a few seconds I saw that the Kingston SSD did appear on the desktop as "Untitled" which is standard for MacOS to identify Windows drives. I don't plan on using it in a RAID setup, at least for now, but may test that out in the future and will follow up in a separate post with the results.
So if you've maxed out your SATA ports and are looking to install additional internal drives, make sure you have enough SATA cables for extra drives and be sure to pick up that SATA Card. You can also do a search for SU-SA3004 and get results on eBay, but I did a wider search and looked for "PCIe SATA" (without quotes).
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