I'm looking for a board to use with Core 2 and numerous hard drives, say at least 5. Can anyone name some boards with numerous SATA and some ATA connectors?
I know of:
ASUS P5W DH Deluxe: 8 SATA, 2 ATA
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6: 8 SATA, 1 ATA
LGA775 boards with many harddrive connectors
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So JBOD may not be supported by each SATA connection? The P5W DH specs are:
* Intel ICH7R Southbridge
o 1 x Ultra ATA33/66/100 (data transfer rate up to100MB/sec.)
o 4 x SATA 3.0Gbps ports
o Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5
* JMicron JMB363 SATA/IDE controller
o 2 x SATA 3.0Gbpsinterface (1 x sharedeSATA port)
o 1 x Ultra ATA33/66/100/133 (data transfer rate up to133MB/sec.)
* Silicon Image SiI 4723 SteelVine SATA RAID processor
o 2 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface
o Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD and RAID 10
[Edit: got this response: "the two orange SATA connectors can support one drive running non-raid, or two drives running in raid0 or raid1."]
* Intel ICH7R Southbridge
o 1 x Ultra ATA33/66/100 (data transfer rate up to100MB/sec.)
o 4 x SATA 3.0Gbps ports
o Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5
* JMicron JMB363 SATA/IDE controller
o 2 x SATA 3.0Gbpsinterface (1 x sharedeSATA port)
o 1 x Ultra ATA33/66/100/133 (data transfer rate up to133MB/sec.)
* Silicon Image SiI 4723 SteelVine SATA RAID processor
o 2 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface
o Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD and RAID 10
[Edit: got this response: "the two orange SATA connectors can support one drive running non-raid, or two drives running in raid0 or raid1."]