M.2, SATA, SAS, IDE and SCSI Controller Cards

M.2, SATA, SAS, IDE and SCSI cards are the means by which you can attach various forms of storage to your motherboard as follows:

• An SCSI or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) card can be used to connect one or more SCSI devices to a computer bus.
• An IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) card allows you to connect devices such as HDDs, floppy drives or CD-ROM drives to your motherboard. 
• A SATA card adds extra SATA ports for connecting hard drives/SSDs/optical drives to your motherboard. 
• M.2 cards allow you to add or relocate M.2 drives to your motherboard.

In other words, if you’re going to be adding a whole lot of new storage to your system, then you may need one of the cards or adapters listed on this page.

You’ll find that we stock a range of adapter cards from manufacturers including StarTech, Broadcom, Lenovo, Synology and many more.