It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nail_nail on 2025-04-26 13:50:59.

So, I am trying to figure out if I can get a mini itx board that can directly attach to a SAS 12G backplane (sff 8643) without having to add a pcie HBA. Disks will be SATA

I see that there are quite a few board (say, ASUS P12R-I) which say you can get 4 SATA with a mini SAS HD connector. But those won't work with a backplane right? Same for an oculink to 4 sata adapter, right?

My understanding is that these connectors are universal and you can run many protocols over those. When you do oculink to 4sata then you need a specialized cable, but the motherboard knows how to use each lane independently as a sata one, but an HBA uses it differently.

I think something like an H12ssl-NT would work but it is not itx :)

Is there a solution?