Sorry to be so poor in understanding the specs given on computer parts
you may look up on line.
I'm in the market to upgrade a fading (oldish) Athlon64 +3400 setup with
something a little newer no bleeding edge for what is only a home
zfs server.
I happened to be looking at the specs on a
Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H (rev. 2.0)
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3424
Which gives a spec on the sata ports I don't really understand:
First let me preface by saying my experience of SATA ports is limited
to technology quite old by now.. maybe 5-7 yrs. In my experience on
the mo board in the above mentioned aging hardware: (I think it
is this: Abit AK86-L is socket 754. [The machine is clear broke down now
so I can't confirm easily])
had 2 main ports and then somekind of raid ports. Far as I could see
you were able to attach only 1 sata device to each port.
(Of course ports could be and were added by PSI card)
Sorry for getting a little carried away with details there, here is
the question:
In the spec at the above Gigabyte site, Under the heading of
`Storage Interface':
South Bridge:
1. 5 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors 6 supporting up to 5 SATA 6Gb/s devices
And in the supplied image of the board I see 5 sata ports showing.
So does that mean each ports is supposed to be able to support 5 sata
devices?
I want to know exactly the sata capacity of the board as that is the
first thing I will run out of since I already have 6 fullish discs
from the down machine to but in.
ps - Note the mobo is given with a revision number. I wondered if that
is something to be wary of, like if some revisions are known bad or whatnot.
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