I’m looking at some common desktop motherboards and a lot of them only have like 2 or 4 SATA ports. (But do have other M.2 or PCIe slots.)

How do people connect 10 hard drive disks to something like this? Or do I have to purchase an Enterprise Server Motherboard to support this use case?

I’m trying to build my own NAS/media center and I want a ton of storage.

  • BeefHouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I have a PCI expansion card with 2x SAS ports, each of which can connect 4x SATA HDDs with a cable adapter.

    I got a used Dell H200 for $30, because it’s good enough and the ports face UP instead of backwards, which is good for my itx case