Motherboard with 10 SATA 3.0 ports

Malneb · 21 Jan 2024

Market share is also 1080p which is what you should render to imo, else you might as well start the next youtube or something.

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1080p is the most commonly used resolution. 4k video will look good sure but its just arbiturary space. 1080p most ppl wont even know the difference because its still a clear HD image. unless you need that clarity like 3D FX or a movie then its less important.

jshs2020 · 22 Jan 2024

@AK6DN... All good.

Found a bunch of boards with 10 SATA... The Supermicro brand. Not available where I live from most retailers, I'd probably have to import it.

Absolutely will never depend on cloud for storage of personal data. I know my email resides in the cloud until I download it onto my PC (I don't use IMAP). But apart from that I will never use cloud. Too many weaknesses, vulnerabilities and I have no control over my own data safety.

Another solution I thought of is the USB attached enclosures. Connected to a 20Gbps or 10Gbps port I can generally get the maximum transfer speeds from the HDDs. I know this because I've used several of them before.

I thought the add-in expansion card would perform the same (as it is advertised to do), thus eliminating another external device. But the add in card doesn't work. Neither of the brands I tried are reliable or even come close to the advertised performance.

@Malneb... You are so right! We must have the worst prices in the west. And there's really no justification for the extreme prices.

Intel seems hell bent on using CPUs to heat our homes. Although, the only time I've been able to thermal throttle a CPU (13th/14th gen only), is with synthetic workloads, like Cinebench. In real world gaming, and even content creation, my temps are good. Like 50 - 70c mostly. Of course, Handbrake will do it's best to push temps, but that program is so slows it impractical to use anyway.

Coolers are 280, 360 or 420mm AIOs.

All of the systems here are in XL cases. Like me, everything is big :)

Malneb · 22 Jan 2024

After reading back some of the thread again i noticed a few things sounds like you main rig the computer for your basketball stuff as well as your everyday.

48TB in backups alone is a lot of dead space that is 4 X 12TB hard drives slots in back ups alone, so that would be 4 of your 8 SATA slots on the motherboard in backups lol. You should be looking to remedy this imo.

If it was me i would take all the basketball stuff onto its own computer so a computer set like a server or a NAS or whatever the redundancy is less of a concern assuming that the computer only turns on to upload the basketball stuff and never needs to run outside of that.

Backups are good but they are not crucial the better way is to monitor your systems so that you know when its time to backup or resolve the media onto new storage, this way you bypass overhead. 4 slots and 48TB is is decreased efficiency unless you are going to have a server rack with lots of space.

other end of the divide i don't even back up my data but i know when its time to do so.

User2468 · 22 Jan 2024

Motherboards today are overpriced for what you get. Plain and simple. It's greed head BS.

For what you want to do I'd look at server MOBOs. Seriously. 10 Gb LAN? 10 SATA ports?! It's gonna need a decent chipset...

User2468 · 22 Jan 2024

Ghot said:

@jshs2020

This is the best I could find...

Asus ProArt Z790-CREATOR WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (ProArt Z790-CREATOR WIFI) - PCPartPicker

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Wow, AI cooling... Wish I had a copyright on the use of AI these days...

User2468 · 22 Jan 2024

Ghot said:

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