On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 04:52:48PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
Matching that level of versatility with *modern* ports on a modern motherboard, especially without access to a hardware-review site of the caliber I was drawing on at the time, is going to be difficult.
Not really: fast USB & nvme are pretty much standard these days. Your choices are more limited if you insist on a zillion onboard sata ports, but you could just get a 4 or 6 port expansion card for well under $50.