Hi everyone,
I am building a home server with a Supermicro MBD-X10SAE-O motherboard.
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Looking at the picture and description, I have:
2x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots - Function as: 16/NA or 8/8
3x PCI-E 2.0 x1 (in x4) slots
2x PCI 5V 32-bit slots
available for expansion.
My case can physically fit up to 74 hard drives, but my motherboard has only 8 SATAIII connectors.
What can I do to connect many more hard drives? What kind of controllers/RAID cards can I use?
RAID support and speed are nice, but not necessarily as important to me as just the number of additional connections. It is absolutely essential that if they are cards, they support drives larger than 2tb. I heard that some don't.
Did I mess up and should have gotten a motherboard with SAS connectors if I want this many connections?
I am building a home server with a Supermicro MBD-X10SAE-O motherboard.
http://
Looking at the picture and description, I have:
2x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots - Function as: 16/NA or 8/8
3x PCI-E 2.0 x1 (in x4) slots
2x PCI 5V 32-bit slots
available for expansion.
My case can physically fit up to 74 hard drives, but my motherboard has only 8 SATAIII connectors.
What can I do to connect many more hard drives? What kind of controllers/RAID cards can I use?
RAID support and speed are nice, but not necessarily as important to me as just the number of additional connections. It is absolutely essential that if they are cards, they support drives larger than 2tb. I heard that some don't.
Did I mess up and should have gotten a motherboard with SAS connectors if I want this many connections?
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