Question How to connect more than 6 SATA HDDs to my motherboard?

[rcald2000]

I want to have some fun and connect 10+ HDDs into a massive RAID array, since I currently have dozens of used hard drives laying around my apartment.

Problem: My motherboard (listed in specs) has only six SATA data connectors. How do I connect more SATA data cables between the hard drives in my motherboard?

 

[DRagor]

Read this:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/silverstone-turns-one-m2-slot-into-five-sata-ports-ecs07-adapter

 

[CompuGuy71]

You can get a PCI SATA controller card if you really wanted to.

 

[USAFRet]

I want to have some fun and connect 10+ HDDs into a massive RAID array, since I currently have dozens of used hard drives laying around my apartment.

Problem: My motherboard (listed in specs) has only six SATA data connectors. How do I connect more SATA data cables between the hard drives in my motherboard?

PCIe adapter cards.
(you also have to figure out how to power them...😉 )

BUT......Any RAID is highly dependent on the drive sizes.

1+1+2+ RAID 0 = 3TB array.
1+1+2+RAID 1 = 1TB array.

And so on.


You could probably merge different size drives in Storage Spaces within Windows.