22 SATA ports???? Whoa.

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7034/computex-2013-asrock-z87-with-22-sata-ports

 

[Ayah]

Seems like a pointless endeavor. It screams "everything including the kitchen sink" consumer board. Price will be an interesting thing to see.

 

[pcunite]

Wowzier ... with SSD's being so tiny I could see it working ...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Awesome, would be great for storage servers like this:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/846/sc846tq-r900.cfm

Too bad it's not 24 though, as most of the big storage cases have 24 bays. Would save from having to worry about any extra controller card. But can't complain about 22 that's for sure.

Come to think of it, I don't know why they don't make server boards with like 6+ SFF8087 connectors (equivalent to 4 sata). Trying to find non raid high port count sata cards is always a pain in the ass. Ended up using IBM cards off ebay for my server.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I might get one, I have a Norco-4020 with 20 hot-swap drive bays to populate.

 

[Sheep221]

I'm sure that's for domestic webhosting

 

[mikeymikec]

Now all we need are some noisy drives, then 'drive music' can move to the next generation!

Damn those stupid silent SSDs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_XaJ7gE4Q

 

[Red Squirrel]

Now all we need are some noisy drives, then 'drive music' can move to the next generation!

Damn those stupid silent SSDs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_XaJ7gE4Q

Haha that guy is awesome, he has quite a lot of songs done on floppies lol.

I've played music on DC motors before, electromagnetic coils with magnets put inside of it etc, but that just tops it.

 

[Smoblikat]

Seems like a pointless endeavor. It screams "everything including the kitchen sink" consumer board. Price will be an interesting thing to see.

If it costs as much as my board does I will buy one in a heartbeat.