Asrock z87e-itx has 6 port. I paid about 150 for my old one. Was a pretty good board.

 

I've been looking at mITX boards as I'm about to do an office build for someone. Both the Gigabyte and Asus H97 MoBos have six SATA ports. I also see on Newegg that there is an Asus H87 board priced at $104.99: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132032

 

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Originally Posted by Alan G

I've been looking at mITX boards as I'm about to do an office build for someone. Both the Gigabyte and Asus H97 MoBos have six SATA ports. I also see on Newegg that there is an Asus H87 board priced at $104.99: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132032

Thats exactly what I was looking for. Now to find it in stock in Canada.

Thanks

 

Another option is to use much more common 4-SATA port boards and a 2-port PCIe SATA card?

 

Where would I plug that card in if I am also using a video card?

 

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Originally Posted by xundeadgenesisx

Asrock z87e-itx has 6 port. I paid about 150 for my old one. Was a pretty good board.

I've got one of the ASROCK Z87E-ITX boards and I've been very pleased with it as well.

Greg

 

I'd go for a Z87 board if I intended to overclock but given the cpu I will be using is not unlocked, the cheaper H series is a better fit.

 

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Originally Posted by Robilar

Where would I plug that card in if I am also using a video card?

Wasn't sure if you were going with IGP or not.

 

I have a GTX750 that I use in the media PC.

 

I like my ASRock z87-itx a lot too. Only minor nitpick is two of the sensors in HW monitor are incorrect.One shows 14 degrees c and the other 56 degrees c when everything else is low 30s.

 

Has anyone seen stock on an LGA1155 Mini ITX board with 6 ports? Asus made one for awhile but can't find it anywhere.

 

BAM! 6x SATA III was the only configuration I could find, unfortunately. No 2x SATA III and 4x SATA II or anything like that. Still, $120-130 plus integrated WiFi plus Broadwell support is nice. I'd take some of those savings and invest in a 750Ti if my unsolicited advice is deemed acceptable and you don't have the GPU yet.

 

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo

Another option is to use much more common 4-SATA port boards and a 2-port PCIe SATA card?

Can this be done for a Server 2008 R2 software raid? I currently have a Raid 5 setup in a quite big Mid tower case, but I wanted to make the build Mini ATX. Just like the OP I've been having a hard time finding cheap motherboards with 6 SATA ports in the $50-80 range. I saw someone posted one for $99 which is not bad, but if I could do the 4SATA and 2PCIe SATA with a cheaper board that'll be great.

By the way I did not mean to thread jack