Review ASRock B650E Steel Legend Wi-Fi Review: More SATA, Please

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If it's that high of price and they want to reduce the ports, they should start integrating the likes of SAS ports into the boards. Each SAS port is easily expanded to 4 SATA devices

I forgot what the other drive tech was.
 
Honestly, SATA is on its way out. Two ports is probably sufficient for 99% of users.
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You are being ridiculous. Blu-Ray players and HDD still use SATA, and that isn't going to change any times soon.

Maybe you never back-up anything on your PC, but plenty of people do, and most people use HDD for that. HDD that use SATA.

Having only 2 SATA ports makes this board a no-go for anyone doing back-ups and using optical media.

And if you never do any serious work on your PC that requires a back-up, then why are you on TomsHardware or use a PC. Buy a console and chromebook instead.
 
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PlaneInTheSky said:
You are being ridiculous. Blu-Ray players and HDD still use SATA, and that isn't going to change any times soon.
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Ok... So one HDD on SATA and one Blu-ray drive on the other SATA done.

Most people backup to external drives these days anyway. Also optical drives are rare.

Also... Also... Optical for backup?? At 50GB per disk? Even a full spindle of 50 blurays is 2.5TB. You could get a small external 4TB HDD for $80 vs a 100 disc spindle of Blurays for $150.

The HDD is more compact and cheaper. You could (and should) but two USB drives and off-site one of them to a friend's house for the price of Blurays which also aren't rated for archival.

Or you could get like 2-3 years of cloud storage.

And for the handful of people living in the age of Limp Biskit and other 2000s nostalgia there are m.2 SAS cards with 8x SATA ports and you can go crazy without even using a single pcie slot.
 
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You could (and should) buy two USB drives and off-site one of them to a friend's house
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Proper back-up is done with RAID.

Not some USB drive you attach on a sunday afternoon, while losing half your data from the week.
 
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I don't see anything wrong with the price or specs here. Seriously, it's a 4x DDR5 mobo, with PICe5.0 M.2 (and an additional 2x M.2 slots), decent VRM setup, decent connectivity (USB3.2 and WiFi 6E). Of course price is going to be high (AM5/DDR5, duh!). Complaining about "only" 2x SATA ports in 2023 is a bit of a stretch. 2x SATA is more than enough nowadays, you can still have one SATA SSD and one optical drive (because not all of us have coin to spend on large M.2 SSDs), or a "backup" HDD and an optical drive (yes, quotes around "backup", as a proper backup is stored off-machine, because, you know, crypto lockers and data corruption due to various reasons and physical theft and stuff).
 
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PlaneInTheSky said:
Proper back-up is done with RAID.
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Proper backup is done off-machine. Cloud, USB, NAS, take your pick. RAID provides performance/resiliency. If you treat RAID as your backup, good luck when the disk volume gets corrupted during a power outage or random BSOD (don't jinx it, it can still happen due to buggy drivers or crap software, even with the best hardware in the world). Or when someone physically steals your machine. Or when you get some random crypto locker on there (yes, "when", not "if"). Go take a backup of your data, if you value it.
 
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And for the handful of people living in the age of Limp Biskit and other 2000s nostalgia there are m.2 SAS cards with 8x SATA ports and you can go crazy without even using a single pcie slot.
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Made my day, lol. I (still) like Limp Biskit and also have an old banger-PC from 2000's with a 3DFx card (collecting dust and spiders). Weirdly, I don't advocate the use of SATA in 2023... Must be doing something wrong 😆
 
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Why make it ATX format and only put a 2nd wimpy x4 PCIe 3.0 slot on it? It's a complete and total waste of board real estate. Should have been a mATX format

It also needed more USB for the rear panel. Applications like VR are sensitive to the number of chip controllers. If you split the USB chip among several ports, there are drop out errors with a number of VR Sets.
 
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PlaneInTheSky said:
Having only 2 SATA ports makes this board a no-go for anyone doing back-ups and using optical media.
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2 SATA ports is plenty for me, and I have many a backup. 2x18TB HDDs in a mirror array, as well as an 18TB external USB 3.0 drive, and a USB Blu-Ray burner. I rarely use the Blu-Ray burner for backups, maybe once or twice a year of super important files. Most of those super important files are stored in real-time on a private VPS in the event my entire house burns to a crisp.
The days of SATA are slowly going away. Now if everyone would just move to U.2 or U.3.
 
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Yikes.

RAID is an availability solution, not a backup solution.
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Keep your "yikes" for yourself.

If you worked in the industry, you would know that RAID is a proper back up system, and RAID is called a back up system.

David Patterson, the inventor of RAID, called it a back up system.

Maybe stop downloading porn if you get viruses all the time. Or change to an air gap system if you can't help yourself.

I also suggest you stop watching Youtube videos, because that's apparently where you get your extremely limited and chronically misinformed information from.


Arcserve, one of the oldest and most trusted data protection providers, calls RAID a back up solution.

So does Oracle.

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Dude... Just stop.
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You have only ever made 5 posts. and they all happen to be in this thread.

You just happen to register just today.

All posts are about defending this mobo like your life depended on it.

At least make it less obvious next time.

Hopefully ASRock pays well.
 
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PlaneInTheSky said:
You have only ever made 5 posts. and they all happen to be in this thread.

You just happen to register just today.

All posts are about defending this mobo like your life depended on it.

At least make it less obvious next time.

Hopefully ASRock pays well.
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Lol. You, my friend, are delusional. I'm not defending anything/anyone. I'm just calling out your BS for what it is. I'll stop here, as I'm clearly out of my depth challenging a "professional" who can't distinguish a storage technology from a data recovery method.
 
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You have only ever made 5 posts. and they all happen to be in this thread.

You just happen to register just today.

All posts are about defending this mobo like your life depended on it.

At least make it less obvious next time.

Hopefully ASRock pays well.
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And you've posted 281 times without helping a single person.

I doubt you could tell the difference between SIGMOD and a jar of pickles.
 
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