Anonymous
9/10/2025, 5:39:33 PM
No.106547751
>>106547915
>>106549303
The Industry forced me to buy a SAS card. Is there any X870 motherboard that has more than 4 SATA ports?
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 5:47:23 PM
No.106547852
Couldn't you just get an add-in card for that? If you need raid, iirc, you could use an H330 or something similar (however those are expensive and made for Dell servers, so you might be better off using something else).
Also, what does having to buy a SAS card anything to do with SATA? The only relation of those that I know of is using a backplate for sata on servers, like the Dell PowerEdge T330.
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 5:52:24 PM
No.106547915
>>106547951
>>106548798
>>106547751 (OP)
Why the long face? Cheer up.
The cheapest way to add 8 SATA ports is by getting a SAS2008 based card off ebay. Research that your OS has drivers for that chip since it's old by now.
The other option is getting an NVME M-Key adapter that turns your NVME port to 6 SATA ports.
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 5:55:19 PM
No.106547951
>>106548798
>>106547915
I assumed that, since he asked specifically for X870 boards, he's probably at least running ATX or EATX. Those usually have several PCIe slots that he could use for an add-in card.
Nice addition on the NVMe to SATA. Great if you can't add anything else/doesn't have space and has a spare NVMe.
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 7:02:38 PM
No.106548798
>>106549303
>>106549314
>>106547915
>>106547951
Be warned that those things have the same problem that lotsa-port SATA cards have: they almost always have a port multiplier chip on them, with all the bullshit that goes with that.
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 7:42:24 PM
No.106549303
>>106548798
Yeah those NVMe sticks with 6 SATA on them are garbage.
>>106547751 (OP)
>The Industry forced me to buy a SAS card.
Do you mean you were forced to buy an SAS drive? Or do you already have the drives and you need an SAS HBA?
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 7:43:10 PM
No.106549314
>>106548798
True. It can fuck up a few applications and destroy performance. Still, if you want bulk storage and/or has software RAID (or use zfs) it should work. Depends on OP's usecase.
