2019-09-27 09:38:30
This board is a bit intresting
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-motherboard-32-sata-ports,40408.html The Onda B250 D32-D3 and B250 D32-D3 IPFS motherboards sport up to 32 SATA ports.

SidGrip
2019-09-27 10:09:03
thinking of a surfminer setup?

Rotonen
2019-09-27 12:44:42
Yes sir :grin:

SidGrip
2019-09-27 16:12:23
With that, if you can throw cheap SSD on them, PoolMiner (+mdadm) or Arktika should be able to do pretty well.

Fireduck
2019-09-27 16:12:34
I wonder if it can actually saturate each with IOPS

Fireduck
2019-09-27 16:13:57
I would expect to be disappointed

Fireduck
2019-09-27 16:14:15
which if you think about it, is a fun riddle. If I am expecting that, is it really a disappointment?

Fireduck
2019-09-27 18:08:02
the sata controllers usually limit the iops, no idea of that one

Rotonen
2019-09-27 18:21:11
for arktika, something like this could be interesting
https://www.anandtech.com/print/14902/intel-ethernet-800-series-to-support-nvme-over-tcp-pcie-40 Intel Ethernet 800 Series To Support NVMe over TCP, PCIe 4.0

Rotonen