hey yall. im thinking of upgrading the board in my home server so i can expand storage a bit easier. right now, it has 8 sata ports, and no M.2 slot. im using 6 of the sata ports currently (4 for an array, 1 for a stand alone storage drive, and one for boot) i want to increase my available capacity without having to jump to bigger drives.
do you have any recommendations for boards i should look at?
i see what you mean by unobtanium. luckily i found some boards that fit my bill after messing with my search criteria a bit. thanks for the help though.
there’s a lot of “salvage” x99 boards out there from China, basically put together with weird components removed from non working boards. they always seem to lack a generous amount of DIMM slots for some reason. I guess DIMM slots are expensive, both for the slot, and more-so routing all those traces.