oh wow asrock

[unidentical]

Irrelevant. I would never buy an Asrock board.

 

Also, all in one solutions are notoriously terribad for one very simple reason...

 

Simple Reason #1: If one part of that motherboard breaks, you have to replace the motherboard, so what is the point?

 

That's why we've been gifted with bountiful PCI-E slots, so we can BUILD the computer we want.

[Bluejay0]

Smells like RAID SSDs

[Nicktrance]

I imagine someone fills this up with raid 0 SSDs and goes Linus you have 8 SSDs well...

It's already been done by asrock themselves :D.

ASRock actually had a build with 22 SSDs which was posted hre 3 days ago: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/23115-asrock-shows-off-z87-extreme11ac-build-with-22-ssds/. I doubt the controller will be as fast as any discrete raid card though, so anyone using many drives or especially anyone running RAID5/6 would be better off with a RAID card.

 

[extremescouter]

This will be perfect for my upcoming storage server build (software RAID). It will be priced around $400 I am guessing. If that's the case, I say it's a very good value.

 

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038

 

Yeah, that was the case I was thinking of, but they're are not many other options. The board is great for specific purposes, and if they actually go through with it, it seems like it would be a great option for a specific build. 

[AustinTheIntern]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa me gusta

[SAV1OUR]

i knew about the extreme line up but hole mother of sata ports on the z87 extreme11 :OOOOOOO

[CoolBeans]

22 if anyone is to lazy to count

[theelitegamer]

tl;dr but this is fake right? it have to be?

[SAV1OUR]

tl;dr but this is fake right? it have to be?

its not http://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/Z87%20Extreme11ac/index.asp?cat=

[Imabigmac]

probably a mis-communication between the designers, corporate and the factory. 

 

 

Corporate brainstormers -"We need board with more than 2 sata port"   

 

Engineers/designer - "Did he say 22 sata ports? .... Back to the drawing board" 

 

Factory - "Well this is bit extreme but whatever we can make it  " 

 

Marketers/corporate - "Who the $@#* designed this? Oh well we have 5000 of them better sell em anyway" 

 

Also the meeting was probably similar to the infamous

[SAV1OUR]

probably a mis-communication between the designers, corporate and the factory. 

its a real board though....

[theelitegamer]

its not http://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/Z87%20Extreme11ac/index.asp?cat=

Mother of Raid's....... you could so go crazy with this thing.

[One Who Craves Souls]

[Glenwing]

When they say extreme they aren't messing around

[Imabigmac]

its a real board though....

I expanded upon my idea. 

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Pfff only 22.

[Izaya Orihara]

Aaaaand the are all Sata 2.  

[Coombzy]

Pfff only 22.

It needs 22 more on the other side

[One Who Craves Souls]

Searched for pictures in google, was not disappointed.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

It needs 22 more on the other side

They gotta just surround it in Sata ports.

[Coombzy]

Aaaaand the are all Sata 2.

Nope 

"22 x SATA3 (16 x SAS-3 12.0 Gb/s + 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s) from LSI SAS 3008 Controller+ 3X24R Expander"

[MrYuriy]

When they say extreme they aren't messing around

Indeed.

 

... Holy. Mother. Of. God.

This board is.... Amazing Extreme.

 

The only horrible part about this board is the $520 price tag. And yes, it's real. It's on Newegg right now. Link below for those interested.

ASRock Extreme 11/ac

 

 

 

 

 

I just wish it had more SATA ports.

[Imabigmac]

Actually new idea, the designers are the same guys who made this 

[SAV1OUR]

Actually new idea, the designers are the same guys who made this 

are they all usb butt plug compadable? 

[austin541]

damn