Looking for any recommendations on a motherboard that supports intel 10th/11th gen processors, quadro p2000 on a dedicated pci 3.0 (not shared or downgraded when some other slot gets used), 2 m.2 full width drives, and preferably 3 other pci slots that could handle HBA cards that will have 8 drives on each (spinning rust), and up to 128gb of ram.

 

It's that fourth pci slot that I'm having trouble with, otherwise this one would be perfect: Gigabyte Z590 AORUS ULTRA LGA 1200

 

Another option would be for me to sell my 3 sas9340-8i cards and buy 2 cards that support 12 drives each; or find a board with at least 10 on board sata ports (array is 24 drives + 2 cache + 2 other drives outside array that I want to use as zfs block storage), but before I do that, I thought I'd ask here. 

 

Budget is $300ish, but that can go up if needed.

 

Nate

Best should use SAS3 expander, i.e. 82885t, it is 8e-28i, if connect in single link then you can connect 24 disks internally or connect 20 disks max then remian 4 disks connnect directly to HBA for maximize the bandwidth. Better put the expander out of PCIe area and apply sufficient cooling for it.

Edited August 18, 20214 yr by Vr2Io