Motherboard supporting more than 4 SATA ports (1 Viewer)

[happy]

i've had a look around and couldnt find anything

doesnt need to be stat of the art, just have support for lots of SATA ports, and be socket 775 mATX and have onboard vga, its only for my file server,

haveing mediaportal has made me run out of space at a alarming rate!!

so anybody know of any boards?

 

[surfermc]

They come with no recommendation
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P
Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H

 

[revs]

I've got a pretty old gigabyte board that has 8 SATA, so assume they still make some similar. Never had a prob with their boards either,

 

[happy]

right ill have a look into them, although overkill for a file server arent they

 

[ryan20021982]

I use one of these

Newegg.com - SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card - Controllers / RAID Cards

 

[happy]

I use one of these

Newegg.com - SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card - Controllers / RAID Cards

thats not a bad idea, dont know why i didnt think of that, ill look into that for sure, thanks mate

 

[meq123]

I just got an ECS G43T-M, actually for my MediaPortal HTPC. Intel chipset, comes with 6 Sata's and the 4500HD graphic chipset w/both HDMI (cool!) and VGA connectors.

Works great as an HTPC MB since it has audio over HDMI and supports S3 standby (WOL etc) which might well be good for your application. Relatively cheap too.

 

[happy]

I just got an ECS G43T-M, actually for my MediaPortal HTPC. Intel chipset, comes with 6 Sata's and the 4500HD graphic chipset w/both HDMI (cool!) and VGA connectors.

Works great as an HTPC MB since it has audio over HDMI and supports S3 standby (WOL etc) which might well be good for your application. Relatively cheap too.

not looking for a MB for HTPC, im looking for a MB for my file server as i've run out of connections to add hard drives

 

[meq123]

I just got an ECS G43T-M, actually for my MediaPortal HTPC. Intel chipset, comes with 6 Sata's and the 4500HD graphic chipset w/both HDMI (cool!) and VGA connectors.

Works great as an HTPC MB since it has audio over HDMI and supports S3 standby (WOL etc) which might well be good for your application. Relatively cheap too.

not looking for a MB for HTPC, im looking for a MB for my file server as i've run out of connections to add hard drives

I understand - I threw the HTPC bit in as an aside, but Note, it's cheap and has 6 SATA ports as well as a dual IDE (single connector).

 

[Bagal]

I've just gone and rebuilt my server using a MSI G45M Digital which has 6 sata ports, paired it with a Pentium E5200 and it's working really well.