Serial ATA on a KT3 raid controller

Hi,
i'm gonna buy new harddrives for my MSI KT3
in a little more time i wil switch MLB aswell but not at this time
my question:
I'm thinking of buying 2 Serial ATA drives but I'm not sure if they wil work on my KT3 ultra 2 MLB on Raid 0 (it has no serial ATA).
does someone know if this work or not?

The only way you're going to to get SATA is to buy either a new motherboard with onboard SATA e.g. a KT6 Delta or KT6V the latter is hard to find. The other way is to buy an add-on pci card from Promise or Highpoint or Adaptec is good.

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    57A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25, set byte offset = 222462894080.
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