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Motherboards ITX s1151 mobo with more than 4 SATA ports

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by phinix, 8 Mar 2016.

  1. phinix

    phinix RIP Waynio...

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    Apart of Asroock, I only noticed that Gigabyte puts PCI express on their s1151 ITX mobos.

    Now, Can I use PCI Express port as 2 separate SATA3 ports?

    So if this Gigabyte Z170N Gaming 5 mobo has 2 PCI express ports and 2x SATA ports, does it mean I could actually use 6 SATA ports?
     
  2. meandmymouth

    meandmymouth Multimodder

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    The two SATA ports in the SATA Express port will working fine normally.

    From the listing - "2 x SATA Express (Compatible with 2x SATA 6.0 Gbps)"
     
  3. phinix

    phinix RIP Waynio...

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    Yeah, so do they mean 2x SATA express will work as 2x SATA 6.0?
    Or, should that say - 2x SATA Express will work as 4xSATA 6.0?
     
  4. meandmymouth

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    Each SATA express should work as 2 normal SATA ports, so 4 total.

    EDIT: 6 total on the board, that is.
     
  5. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    as meandmymouth said, you'll have 6 usable SATA III ports, plus the m2 slot on the underside of the board...
     
  6. phinix

    phinix RIP Waynio...

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    Cool, I was looking for a mitx mobo with more than 4 sata.

    I wonder why they put that pci express sata when its a dead end anyway...
     
  7. Guest-16

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    Tick box. Everyone does it. It'll disappear by next gen.
     
  8. phinix

    phinix RIP Waynio...

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    Yep. At least it gives us 2 extra sata.
    Itx format is fine with 4 sata sockets but sometimes its good to have small mobo in data center pc.
     
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  9. Guest-16

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    Agree, I have both H77 and H81 ITX with 6 SATA at home :) H81 is in my NAS with all used (and a waayyyyyy overpowered 4790 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
     

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