Is there a motherboard with several mSATA ports?

[yllanos]

Hi.

I just want to know if there are any desktop motherboards with several mSATA ports. At least like 3 ports.

Thanks.

 

[Gam3r01]

Well, do you have a processor that you want to use, or are you basing that off the board? If I know the socket type I can try to find a specific board.

 

[yllanos]

Well, do you have a processor that you want to use, or are you basing that off the board? If I know the socket type I can try to find a specific board.

Maybe an Intel processor with 1155 or 1150 socket

 

[geofelt]

I can't think of any with more than onemsata port.
Is there some reason why you need msata and not normal sata ports?

What will the primary usage of this pc be?

 

[yllanos]

I can't think of any with more than onemsata port.
Is there some reason why you need msata and not normal sata ports?

What will the primary usage of this pc be?

Usage would be a very compact mSATA SSD-based NAS build

 

[geofelt]

How much storage would you need?
Msata will come in up to 480gb.
A conventional ssd will max at 960gb.
Something like the ASRock Z87E-ITX will have 6 sata ports plus a m-sata slot.
Would that be enough?

 

[yllanos]

How much storage would you need?
Msata will come in up to 480gb.
A conventional ssd will max at 960gb.
Something like the ASRock Z87E-ITX will have 6 sata ports plus a m-sata slot.
Would that be enough?

Conventional SSDs are too big for this build.

I'm thinking on going maybe to RAID 5/6 using mSATAs

 

[Gam3r01]

I have only seen boards with 1 mSATA port. Its not going to be easy, or even possible for that matter

 

[the_letter_J]

Not sure this helps you (since it sounds like you want a desktop mobo with socket 115x), but you can buy a clevo/sager laptop with 2 mSata slots (plus a third pci-e-based mini-card slot for wifi). The model-numbers (sager-style) that I know of are NP9390, NP9380, NP8295, NP8275, NP8255, NP8235, NP7330, but there could be more where those came from, or from other vendors. Rather than a desktop socket, these would use something like the i7-4700MQ laptop cpu and the HM87 chipset. You could use the two mSata slots for RAID-1, or RAID-0, but if you are looking for RAID5/RAID10 setup you would fall short. Have you considered pci-e based SSD units, like the ones used in blade servers? Not as compact as mSata, but might work. What dimensions are you aiming for here, exactly? You can put four sata 2.5" ssd units with RAID 1+0 into a pretty compact package, I would have thought, and that would mean you could use any old mobo. Sounds like you want to go smaller than that.