Wednesday, August 24, 2016 5:52 PM
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As the title says, I'm looking to replace my 6700K and motherboard with something else that offers more SATA ports. I have 6 on my current board and it's not enough.
I have a selection of HP Microservers and they do the job, but having six of them stacked on top of one another is getting tiresome. My plan is to buy a new motherboard or my workstation with 10 or so SATA ports and move some HDDs into there.
Here are my questions:
1. What are my options (platform, CPU)?
2. Is there a PCI-E card that offers more SATA ports (sorry if that sounds stupid)?
3. If I go ahead, where's a good place to sell my existing ROG mobo and CPU (and possibly a GTX 970)?
PS: The reason I'm asking here is because EVGA is known for support. I've found that to be severely lacking so far, but that was most likely just the person I spoke with.
CPU: AMD R9 5900XCooling: 360mm Corsair H150i RGB Pro XT AIOMotherboard: Asus ROG Strix B550-ERAM: Corsair 32GB Vengeance LPX @ 3600 MHz CL18GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 Hybrid 10GB w/ 240mm radiator SSD/HDD: 1 * 1TB WD Blue M.2 PCIe 3.0 NVMe | 2 * 1TB WD Blue SATA | 2 * 8TB Toshiba N300 HDD SATA NAS: 280TB on a 4U server