It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/darkkent8 on 2025-03-06 18:43:18.

Hey guys, I am looking at building a NAS with true Nas and I am just looking at motherboards

It's proving quite hard to find matx board with 8 sata ports on and I wondered if there anything I need to know about there 6 and 8 pcie X1 sata cards

Questions

Does it matter what kind of PCIE port i put it in, can PCIE X1 really handle 6 or 8 drives or am.i going to see a dramatic reduction in speed?

Are they reliable or should I shell out the extra for a 8 sata mobo instead of a cheaper mobo and a card.

Fyi I have 5 4tb drives for a raid, and the 2 2tb for a mirror and I might use the extra for a small SSD cache drive as I have one spare

Thanks in advance for any replies!!!