I was thinking about purchasing a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 motherboard.  This motherboard has 10 SATA ports.  Six of them are using the Intel X79 chipset and the other four are using the Marvel 88SE9172 chipset.  If I plug in 10 hard drives, will unraid see all 10 hard drives and work properly even though the hard drives are on different chipsets?

 

Or should I just use a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 card instead of the onboard SATA?

 

Intel X79 Chipset:

- 2 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3 0/1) supporting up to 2 SATA 6Gb/s devices

- 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2 2/3/4/5) supporting up to 4 SATA 3Gb/s devices

Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10

* When a RAID set is built across the SATA 6Gb/s and SATA 3Gb/s channels, the system performance of the RAID set may vary depending on the devices being connected.

 

Marvell 88SE9172 chipset:

- 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (GSATA3 6/7/8/9) supporting up to 4 SATA 6Gb/s devices

 

 

I've just bought an asrock p67 extreme which also has 10 sata ports, some using the Marvell SE9120 chipset.

 

Unraid seems to see them fine in my setup and everything has been working fine for a couple of days now 

 

Edited to add I am using all 10 slots.

Thanks for letting me know.