Do I need an open serial ATA to install a Blu Ray drive?

I have a mac pro that I wish to add a blu ray internal burner to in my empty bay. However I am using all 4 of my internal Serial ATA slots for 1TB hard drives in each. I was unsure but though I saw you needed one of these to install a BR drive.
If I do need one of these for this, I could put a 2TB internal HD and free up a slot assumming that the 2TB internal drives exist now, I have not checked.
I am looking at the Pioneer BDR-205 but am open to suggestions.
Thanks
John

Cool, thank you.
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My previous reply got deleted for referencing a BB competitor (even though I was reccommending AGAINST going to said competitor as their Blu-Ray drive is more expensive than other vendors even after a 20% going-out-of-business sale).
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You can follow the instructions from the links below:
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Note:
If you have HP Support Assistant installed on the computer(The Blue Question Mark) then open it ==> Complete all pending Updates & Tuneups==> Restart and Check. It may solve your problem
Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.
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