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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/No-Explanation2174 on 2023-09-26 10:25:59+00:00.
Hey guys. I am in desperate need for more sata ports as nearly all 6 of my motherboard ports are in use.
My current setup is 4 hard drives (2 of which in use 24/7 and other 2 written to daily) and a dvd player (used very occasionally).
I plan to add more drives in the future so thats why ive been looking into solutions for my sata port shortage.
My first option would be to sacrifice my pcie gen 3 x16 slot for a card with alot of sata ports (say 12/16). My second option would be to use a sata port splitter (example: )
The problem with the pcie card is that the slot is disabled due to me using an m.2 slot. I could move my ssd to another slot but that would disable 2 of my 6 sata ports on my mobo
I want to avoid bottlenecks so im aiming for each hard drive having 250MBps to read/write. with the port splitter option id be able to use 3 ports before i start potentially bottlenecking my drives.
What would you guys recommend? all help is appreciated :D
Note: i have both the physical space and power cables to house many more drives. The issue really only are sata ports