On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500
o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> Greetings
>
> Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2 drives.
>
> It took looking in the fine print to find that when using M2 drives
> that one loses an
> SATA port for each M2 drive.
>
> So in a system with 2 M2s and a pair of SSDs for the operating system
> I've only got space left for 4 SATA drives - - - - and I have 5 that
> are to be placed in the case after everything is set up.
>
> The case has room for some over 20 more drives than I'm starting with
> so space is NOT an issue.
>
> Have found some PCIe 3.0 cards with 16 SATA port count.
>
> Do I need any kind of special driver to use this many SATA ports?

What kind of SATA cards (brand, model, chip)?

>
> I've tried looking - - - - can't seem to find anything.
>
> Please
>
> TIA
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