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.

  • ObscureOtter@piefed.caEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    You’re looking for an HBA card flashed into IT mode. There’s a lot of LSI branded cards that can accomplish this. Just do a quick search on eBay and you’ll see tons of different options.

    Sorry, on mobile and couldn’t find a good link for ya.