August 2, 200916 yr It's possible that when I'm (more) complete that I could end up with 22 ports (6 MB, 12 PCIe, and *4 PCI) and with 4.5 going to 20 drives that would be 2 extras. Could you still run this configuration and just not hook any drives to 2 of the PCI ports and all drives be recognized and not confused by the 2 "extra" unused ports? * I accidentally ordered a cheep 4 port SATA instead of a 2 port. The cost of returning it for a 2 port would be more than keeping the 4 port.
August 2, 200916 yr It's possible that when I'm (more) complete that I could end up with 22 ports (6 MB, 12 PCIe, and *4 PCI) and with 4.5 going to 20 drives that would be 2 extras. Could you still run this configuration and just not hook any drives to 2 of the PCI ports and all drives be recognized and not confused by the 2 "extra" unused ports? * I accidentally ordered a cheep 4 port SATA instead of a 2 port. The cost of returning it for a 2 port would be more than keeping the 4 port. It will not care. You can use the extra ports for disks that are not part of the array is you ever need to. (you'll need to manage them yourself, but the unMENU disk-management plug-in lets you mount and share disks outside of the array easily) Joe L.
August 4, 200916 yr Just be careful with the motherboard that you choose, some like the Gigabyte ones have issues with PCI-E 1X in the 16X slots (they don't work), but 4X and 8X cards might.
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