Onda B365 D32-D4 Mainboard with 32 SATA Ports

[Crogge]

It is meant but storage mining but it might be interesting for unRAID users?

 

http://www.onda.cn/MotherBoard_Specifications.aspx?id=465

[Squid]

Without a manual to see if it's using port expanders or something, I'd steer clear

[Crogge]

7 hours ago, Squid said:

Without a manual to see if it's using port expanders or something, I'd steer clear

I guess its a single chip sharing a limited amount of bandwidth for all ports. I like the concept though.

[JonathanM]

7 minutes ago, Crogge said:

I guess its a single chip sharing a limited amount of bandwidth for all ports. I like the concept though.

I'm not aware of a single controller chip that can manage that many ports. It would be interesting to see just how this is handled, whether it's with multiple controller chips or port multipliers.

[Vr2Io]

This mobo was refresh version with B365 chipset (previous B250). There are 7 SATA controller onboard, each use PCIe1x and provide 28 port, other 4 port was come from B365.

 

Previous use Marvell controller and not recommend for Unraid.

[Crogge]

16 hours ago, Vr2Io said:

This mobo was refresh version with B365 chipset (previous B250). There are 7 SATA controller onboard, each use PCIe1x and provide 28 port, other 4 port was come from B365.

 

Previous use Marvell controller and not recommend for Unraid.

 

7 controllers? That's actually not bad.

 

Why are these not recommended for Unraid?

[Squid]

Marvel is somewhat akin to this:

 

Sure, it'll work on occasion, but there's so many inherent problems with them (and the manufacturer not fixing the problems in the driver) that it's definitely caveat emptor

[JonathanM]

3 hours ago, Crogge said:

Why are these not recommended for Unraid?

It's a linux thing, not specifically Unraid. Marvell still operates under the assumption that microsoft rules the computer world.

[JorgeB]

Damn cryptocurrency, it wasn't enough to make GPUs harder to get and wast more power than the country of Argentina uses, now they are causing high capacity disk prices to skyrocket.

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hard-drive-prices-skyrocket-asia-scalpers-making-bank