Socket 939 Sata Question.....

[Alty]

Heya Peeps, anyone know of any 939 mobos with more than the standard 4 SATA ports onboard? I heard a rumour that there are ones out there with 8 ports but is this true? I am not fussed whether they are SATA or SATA2 compliant - jus looking for a mobo with as many SATA ports as poss.

Any suggestions?

 

[Alty]

I am basically looking to get upto 3Tb of mass storage using SATA drives. I have bought 9 Coolermaster Cooldrive 6s to put in my CM Stacker (probably for vanity as much as actual effectiveness I suppose!) and as I replace my current IDE drives with 250/300Gb SATA drives then my mass storage monster will be complete

As for performance, I can quite easily imagine that a dedicated SATA controller card would be more efficient but speed/etc is not an issue so surely the onboard will do fine?

**EDIT** thankyou for your thoughts and comments