NG X5000 Advice

[wlemonds]

I know that it only has USB 2.0 ports but can you use external cd/dvd drives. If so, are they bootable?

[wlemonds]

@wlemonds

DVD drives are connected via one of the 2 on board SATA ports on the X5000 so they work straight away once the machine is switched on.  The other sata port will be used by either an internal SSD drive or a physical hard drive.  Plenty of ports too on the motherboard if you need to add a SATA controller for anything else you wish to add internally.

via the external USB ports (there are 6 in total) you can plug in all sorts of detachable devices such as external hard drives, USB memory stick, Memory card readers, usb hubs, joysticks and joypads etc.....  You can also plug in your phone and have it charge up or transfer photos across using the Photo transfer protocol.

Devices which are USB3.0 like my Sandisk multicard reader will also work as it is backwards compatible.

Yea I know you can hook them up to the SATA, but, do they work from USB? Reason I ask is I'm looking at getting a case that doesn't have bays on the front for the X5000 motherboard. Since I wouldn't be using the CD/DVD hardly at all I was looking at the external option for when I do.

[wlemonds]

Do you need 2 sticks of ram for performance or can you just use one 4GB for example?