On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500 o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> Greetings > > Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2 drives. > > It took looking in the fine print to find that when using M2 drives > that one loses an > SATA port for each M2 drive. > > So in a system with 2 M2s and a pair of SSDs for the operating system > I've only got space left for 4 SATA drives - - - - and I have 5 that > are to be placed in the case after everything is set up. > > The case has room for some over 20 more drives than I'm starting with > so space is NOT an issue. > > Have found some PCIe 3.0 cards with 16 SATA port count. > > Do I need any kind of special driver to use this many SATA ports? What kind of SATA cards (brand, model, chip)? > > I've tried looking - - - - can't seem to find anything. > > Please > > TIA > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
