P4 Motherboard with 2+4 SATA RAID

[vetteguy]

Since I've been talked into going with a P4 for my HTPC, I'm looking for a board which has 6 SATA ports on it. Basically I want to have 2 drives inside the case, with the other 4 for an external SATA enclosure (that holds 4 drives). I probably won't populate them all at first, but I hate to run into a situation where I run out of ports. I guess I could get a PCI card, but I wanted to see what was available. There is an Aopen board that has this (the "AX4SPE Max II") but opinions of Aopen boards seem to be low.

 

[Bmott]

Look at the ABit iC7-max3 i believe its called. It has 6 SATA ports. Its a pretty popular board.

Though may be a little expensive / overboard for a HTPC

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[Odeen]

Aopen is a good solid board if you're not going to overclock it into stratosphere.

Then again, that can be said for virtually ANY board nowadays. I have ECS-based rigs that run extremely reliably at stock speeds, day in and day out.