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How do I connect 15 Hard drives to a motherboard?

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If you're a photographer get an external storage solution instead. There's absolutely no reason for them to all be in your PC. Stuff them in a NAS and hide that away somewhere.

?Basics: Photographer
Usage: Desktop Raid storage
Backup plan: G-Rad external drives (years down the road to impliment)

Current issue at hand. I'm starting a photography business. 
I would like to go with the 900d over the 750d for the 3 hot swap drive bays, and the expandable max 15 hard drive bays. 

My conccern is motherboards only go up to 10 Sata ports.  One is going to be free for the Blu ray burner (data backup)..How do I go about connecting the other disc drives to the sata ports? 

I tried looking this up on youtube, google, and other pc forums. With no luck, i have no answer. 

Hoping to find one here. 

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you'll need a PCIe adapter with more SATA ports

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There are some motherboard with 20+ sata ports, but those are very expensive.

You can use raid cards, but those are very expensive.

Why do you need 60TB of storage anyway?

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Expansion cards.

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what Hans said i do some light content creation i just stuff it all on externals and my NAS

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are you reallt going to back up all your things on cd or dvds that is not a good idea

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If you need RAID: A RAID card

If you don't need RAID: An HBA card

If you have a motherboard with support for it: A SATA Expander

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?Basics: Photographer

Usage: Desktop Raid storage

Backup plan: G-Rad external drives (years down the road to impliment)

Current issue at hand. I'm starting a photography business. 

I would like to go with the 900d over the 750d for the 3 hot swap drive bays, and the expandable max 15 hard drive bays. 

My conccern is motherboards only go up to 10 Sata ports.  One is going to be free for the Blu ray burner (data backup)..How do I go about connecting the other disc drives to the sata ports? 

I tried looking this up on youtube, google, and other pc forums. With no luck, i have no answer. 

Hoping to find one here. 

Why bother? Just get higher capacity drives.

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External bay running on NAS or Thunderbolt.

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Thank you, that is my other option was going with a G-Raid NAS solution. 

Higher capacity drives are nice, but it also means issues. I like using lower capacity drives around 2tb to 3tb.. Raid configration is what I am going to be going for. 

Thank you all. This case is resolved. I ended up going with the corsair 750d. asus deluxe ac ..

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