This motherboard can support up to 32 individual 3.5" HDDs. I would buy this for the novelty alone.
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Stupid technology that you would consider buying
I assume this is made to fit in a certain case to hold those drives.
homiez really be building this, but for drives.
Yeah, there's hdd mining, not that it's really profitable or anything, but it made prices skyrocket anyways since corporations are evil.
What the frick is this shit even? Them normal hdd bays are a no-go anymore or what? I'd like to see the full assembly with this mobo.
It's for crypto mining. Supports 32 GPUs.
More specifically, Chia mining. IDK how profitable it is, but holy frick running a 18TB HDD under max load 24/7 would frick it hard after a few months. At least a GPU is durable and can take a lot of punishment, and you can optimize it by undervolting it and doing physical maintenance, but a damaged HDD is useless.
>but a damaged HDD is useless.
bro just sell them after a year and buy new ones
You can easily detect faults on a bad HDD with software. Why do you think the warranty is only a year-long on HDDs?
you sell it right before you can expect it to get faulty. that's the strategy the anon you're replying to is trying to indicate.
it became quickly unprofitable after 3-4 weeks after the initial hype appeared last year because who could have guessed, failure rates spiked significantly when stressing both HDDs and SSDs to the point where you have to actually account for cost of replacing drives when trying to profit
on top of the amount of space required to even have a reasonable chance to "win" a chia which most of the time went over 3-4x the estimated time to win (which was like 5-6 weeks taking up 400TB of storage)
they arent even full buses for gpus
You only need 1x to mine crypto. Some people actually believe that in order to get a max hash rate, you need 16x with a powerful CPU to match. Still, you really can't do anything like gaming or work on a 1x though.
Those aren't PCIe slots. There's only a single x1 PCIe slot up by the CMOS battery. All the rest look like SATA + power connecters
You'd need some specialized frame to hold the drives securely, or 32 female to male sata+power cables.
are you supposed to use risers with this? because putting 3,5" HDD directly on those connectors would be extremely fragile, I bet.
No, this is how all backplanes work.
It goes in a case that's actually precision-made, so the connector are good for thousands of insert-remove cycles if you're not an ape.
>PinePhone
I know it sucks donkey balls right now, but I really want it to succeed.
Any of those harvested console chips put onto custom motherboards. I have no use for them and driver support would be shit but it'd still be neat
I want to buy Pine baseboard and 7 sodimm nodes. Shit is out of stock forever.
Why would you bother with that monstrosity when you can get a cheap SAS controller, one or two SAS expanders, and 8 SATA breakout cables?
Useful for building a massive NAS.
only if the onboard SATA controller isn't dogshit, which it could easily be
It, of course, isn't just one SATA controller. It's at least 4, most likely 8.
Having said that, if you're going for more than 6-8 devices, do yourself a favour and go for an interface designed to be scaled out this much (SAS).
>company A makes a shitcoin you can "mine" with harddrives, somehow
>company B [totally not linked to company A] starts selling motherboards with many sata docks
i want these people to fail after initially succeding, so the maximum amount of morons will get rekt
>all those drives
>no ecc ram
I have no use for it, just curious how bad the experience will be. If you are able to find a motherboard that support it that is.
I don't understand satan.
If your motherboard support sata port splitting then can't you just get a 1-4 breakout cable?
the mobo needs to support logical port multiplication (well, presumably only to boot from), but you still need a port multiplier board to handle the physical size, it's not the kind of physical interface which can be just daisy chained like SCSI can
how does it limit the form factor it supports
let's say i put the biggest sodimm on the market on this board
will it host a large peertube instance? (a hundred people watching simultaneously)
that would have been cool 20 years ago, but nowadays a single cheap hdd can store that many cd or dvd images no problem, so just emulate it (eliminates the issues he has in the video as well, plus you can automate it all by just making a launch scripts for games to mount the appropriate images when opening the game)