Re: Motherboard with many SATA ports: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum ?
On 11/28/05, Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> wrote:
> Sorry, yet another motherboard question.
>
> Looking for a socket 939 motherboard with a comfortable number of
> SATA ports (at least 6, preferably 8). The application is software
> RAID.
I would buy a reasonable motherboard, and plan to use either Areca,
3Ware, or LSI Logic 8-port SATA cards.
You can get 8-port cards with battery backed cache for about $500 USD,
which buys you a pretty big performance increment. By going with
these cards, you can actually scale up further if you like (e.g. -
with Areca, you can add another 1GB of battery-backed cache)...
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