Re: Recommendation for storage system hardware (mainboard, controllers)

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:17:55 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Wolfgang Draxinger
<wdraxinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For a NAS system I'm going to build for a photographer¹ I'm
looking for a mainboard, that provides at least four PCI-Express
4x slots for SATA2 or SAS controllers.

How many drives are you aiming to hang off this? My Intel D975XBX2 (for example)
has 8 SATA2 ports out of the box. I suspect that other recent boards will have
similar amounts. If you use the onboard ports as well then you can probably
reduce the number of slots you need for extra controllers.

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