Question ASRock X870E Taichi Lite 4 Workstation?

Jan 7, 2025
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Building a new system.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X
Noctua NH-D15 G2
Phanteks Enthoo 719 Case
Seasonic VERTEX GX-1200 PSU
64GB Gskill Ripjaws S5 DDR56000
Samsung Pro M2 (OS)
RTX 5080/5070 16GB
40TB Usable RAID10 sata/sas(faster read speeds the better)
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Looking for a motherboard that can do 2-4 M2 slots, and 4 sata's that can do raid10, or a pcie slot to use a pcie raid card? Can the ASRock X870E Taichi Lite do this without loosing too many pcie lanes, and would I notice the difference using the using the 2 16x PCIe5 lanes at 8x, using a single GPU and raid card?
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Looking for a motherboard that can do 2-4 M2 slots, and 4 sata's that can do raid10, or a pcie slot to use a pcie raid card?
Are you in need of your NVMe drives to be in RAID? Might I ask what sort of a tasks you're going to be taxing the workstation with?

would I notice the difference using the using the 2 16x PCIe5 lanes at 8x, using a single GPU and raid card?
In real world use case scenarios no, you won't notice it. Synthetic benchmarks will however tell you that you're resources could be maximized.