I am building a pc for myself and need a lot of storage because my pc is also a media server to my home theater
I am looking at a lian li case with 10 internal drive bays. I am also looking at a mobo with 10 sata ports
my question is: does each drive or hdd need a sata port on the mobo? in the 'old' days you could run 2 devices off 1 IDE port but I assume sata is one port to one device? or can you chain devices?
any help is appreciated. i have been thinking that I need a mobo with a lot of ports but I guess if devices can be chained then I only need 5 or 6 ports...
I am looking at a lian li case with 10 internal drive bays. I am also looking at a mobo with 10 sata ports
my question is: does each drive or hdd need a sata port on the mobo? in the 'old' days you could run 2 devices off 1 IDE port but I assume sata is one port to one device? or can you chain devices?
any help is appreciated. i have been thinking that I need a mobo with a lot of ports but I guess if devices can be chained then I only need 5 or 6 ports...