I’m planning on building a system with at least 12 hard drives, requiring at least 12 sata ports.
The CPU that I’d like to use is E5-1620 v4
So this makes my options of supermicro motherboards to be one of these:
The maximum number of sata ports in all of them is 10 ports. So I’m going to need an HBA card.
But I noticed that X10SRH-CF has SAS3 built-in.
X10SRH-CF
Is it a good option? If so, Will I be able or need to flash it to IT mode?
Will the mini-sas to sata cables on amazon work with it?
Thanks
The CPU that I’d like to use is E5-1620 v4
So this makes my options of supermicro motherboards to be one of these:
![516dd0691e62c2ebd0166922215815d3c647f598.png](https://forum.level1techs.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/1/516dd0691e62c2ebd0166922215815d3c647f598.png)
The maximum number of sata ports in all of them is 10 ports. So I’m going to need an HBA card.
But I noticed that X10SRH-CF has SAS3 built-in.
X10SRH-CF
![09b9d87f01d0cffa278c68609eab2a06979c7fa7.png](https://forum.level1techs.com/uploads/default/original/3X/0/9/09b9d87f01d0cffa278c68609eab2a06979c7fa7.png)
Is it a good option? If so, Will I be able or need to flash it to IT mode?
Will the mini-sas to sata cables on amazon work with it?
Thanks