motherboard - How can I join the big chasis with SATA drives to computer
2014-07
Moorage
I am planning to order this chasis with 20 SATA Drives
It has only chasis and powersupply.
How am I supposed to use this.
As I have understood I need to add motherboard to the chasis and make it as NAS.
But my main question is how do I connect 20 SATA drives to motherboard.
DO I need motherboard with 20 SATA connections
Julian Knight
It is a rack mount case for a server. You need to put a server motherboard in it. The normal approach would be to have a RAID capable controller card that attaches to the mobo, this will have all the connectors on it.
The last but one picture in the details shows such a controller board in place, recognised by the many red connectors.
Mirage
I have this motherboard Intel® Desktop Board D975XBX2, for which here is the manual .
The manual says it has:
Eight Serial ATA channels (one device per channel):
Four RAID capable Serial ATA (3.0 Gb/s) connectors (black) via the ICH7DH
Three RAID capable Serial ATA (3.0 Gb/s) connectors (blue) via
the Marvell RAID controller
One RAID capable Serial ATA (3.0 Gb/s) connector via the Marvell
RAID controller, compatible with an external Serial ATA drive
(red)
Now the first four SATA ports work without any problem. But any device which is connected to the lower four SATA ports are not detected by the computer.
What should I do? Even when I go to the BIOS, it doesn't show anything.
Snark
Only the 4 first SATA ports (managed by the ICH7DH) are natively supported in the BIOS and can be used for boot devices.
The 4 ones connected to the Marvell RAID controller require a driver to work. This means they'll be reachable only when an operating system (you don't specifiy which one you use) loads the required driver.