ASRock X99 Extreme 11 Features 18 SATA 6 Gbps Ports

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The ASRock X99 Extreme 11 is a monstrosity in terms of design and features. The motherboard features and E-ATX form factor which has become the standard size for the high-end X99 motherboards. But the amount of features on this motherboard are insane bringing it in the same tier as the X99S XPOWER and ROG Rampage V Extreme. The board is built on the same Super Alloy design from the rest of the ASRock X99 motherboards and features a 12 Phase VRM. The PCB is built on a high-quality design and components implementation which has the XXL aluminum alloy heatsinks featured across the board. It retains the blue and black color scheme with the heatpipe integration but the interesting thing about the board is that it also comes with the active fan cooling solution to cool down the extra storage and PCI-e controllers featured near the PCH. This heatsink is connected to the PWM cooling via a single heatpipe but its more denser.

 

 

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[Tola]

But no SATA Express.... Wouldn't buy IMO.

[lachyman]

And it looks crap too.

[DarrenP]

I want one. 

[kuddlesworth9419]

So Stupid.

[GlassBomb]

But no SATA Express.... Wouldn't buy IMO.

That's no big deal currently. The board comes with two M.2 and heaps of Sata ports.

 

The deal breaker for me is that fan.

[HeathCliff]

I wonder what speeds you can get with a RAID 0 on this mobo....

[Recon97]

Pure form of crap.

[Toddwjp]

18 8tb hardrives later

[jezza39]

Looks fucking amazing, so glad someone brought back blue and blue/gold/black looks gorgeous. 

[Ryan Leech]

ASRock is never outdone is terms of SATA expansion

[MoonSpot]

Why soo many sata and no sata express? 

[Maslofski]

holy fuck! now thats overkill, but the wrong overkill

[Mo5]

If you look closer some are labeled as SAS ports

[flibberdipper]

No SATA Express... No get. And not only that, I like the fan on the one ASUS board @Lays used with his 4930k? since it looks better IMO.

[SMURG]

That's no big deal currently. The board comes with two M.2 and heaps of Sata ports.

 

The deal breaker for me is that fan.

Looks like you can unplug it though. Chances are if you have decent case airflow and/or aren't maxing all the PLX chips the little whiner probably isn't even necessary.

That said, there's little compelling reason to get this over the extreme-6 as far as I'm concerned. Unless you actually need 18 SATA ports I suppose lol.

[ForsakenLive]

The problem with the board is that if someone needs these type of storage he probably has to back the data, which means he will want parity. To have a large raid array you need a ton of processing to be done by the controller, which can never be good if integrated to the motherboard. Every decent raid card will outperform motherboard raid controllers. If you are paying $2000 on hard drives, you should pay at least $300-600 on a raid card that will keep up with the amount of data pared on the array.

Maybe some guy that is doing heavy editing and gets a Haswell-E CPU can get this motherboard and have ton and ton of drives for his video footage, and a large case where he can "hot swap" the drives every time he needs to, but the amount of guys that will use their system this way, without a proper storage solution is very small (who doesn't have a NAS these days), not even worth the R&D that had to be done to get this motherboard out.

Bad move Asrock.

[VulsaviiK]

But no SATA Express.... Wouldn't buy IMO.

 

I'd have that opinion, if SATA Express was relevant right now

[CtW]

But it can't accommodate as much storage as the ASrock Z87 Extreme 11/AC with a whopping 22 SATA ports and 2 fans!

[ViruZ_HUN]

There should be atleast 4 Sata express slots man.

And it is ugly. 

 

Asrock? what are thinking?

[Dredgy]

The problem with the board is that if someone needs these type of storage he probably has to back the data, which means he will want parity. To have a large raid array you need a ton of processing to be done by the controller, which can never be good if integrated to the motherboard. Every decent raid card will outperform motherboard raid controllers. If you are paying $2000 on hard drives, you should pay at least $300-600 on a raid card that will keep up with the amount of data pared on the array.

Maybe some guy that is doing heavy editing and gets a Haswell-E CPU can get this motherboard and have ton and ton of drives for his video footage, and a large case where he can "hot swap" the drives every time he needs to, but the amount of guys that will use their system this way, without a proper storage solution is very small (who doesn't have a NAS these days), not even worth the R&D that had to be done to get this motherboard out.

Bad move Asrock.

 

I'm kinda one of these users...loosely. 18 SATA ports is much more important for me than SATA express. And remember, HDDs aren't the only thing to use SATA. On my workstation I have:

 

4x HDD in RAID 10

2x SSD in RAID 0

1x SSD as Scratch

1x Front Panel eSATA

1x Card Reader eSATA

1x BluRay Drive

 

Takes up all 10 SATA ports on my Asus X79 Deluxe, and I still need at least:

 

1x SSD as web server

1x SSD dock (going to have to go for an inferior USB one, for the sole purpose of lack of ports).

 

It is worth pointing out, if NAS was an option, I would have the RAID 10 array in NAS, but it's not so I have to use them.

 

Also caters to extreme performance junkies who want 18 SSDs in RAID 0 or something.

[Raid]

What SATA controller(s) are they using?

[dieharddddd]

new ASRock x99 E-ATX motherboard features 18 Sata 6Gbps

 

http://wccftech.com/asrock-x99-extreme-11-flagship-motherboard-unveiled-features-18-sata-6-gbps-ports-active-fan-cooling/

[MrTiC]

Dat overkill ... Oo mind blown

[dieharddddd]

who needs that much storage thats a lot of porn

Storage includes a mind boggling, 18 SATA III ports (full 6 Gbps), 10 of which are powered through the PCH and the renaming 8 through a separate SAS controller.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/asrock-x99-extreme-11-flagship-motherboard-unveiled-features-18-sata-6-gbps-ports-active-fan-cooling/#ixzz3C0l82hOG