How would I make a 64 TB server? I found motherboards max at

>>60802151
Use the pci-E lanes then.

>>60802151
SAS HBAs with SFF-8087-to-4x-SATA breakout cables. Those are pretty cheap, actually, the large number of giant drives you'll need will be more expensive.

Remember to use ZFS or Btrfs with proper redundancy. You wouldn't want one drive being a bit flaky to take out 64TB of stuff.

>>60802151
You obviously use a SAS card like a real man

PCI card. sensible RAID(absolutely no RAID 0). ZFS with snapshotd

Or just build a hueg JBOD array

>>60802233
>>60802518
Will it still be as fast as 6G/s SATA?
Can I still use regular, cheap hard disks?

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>>60802518
>btrfs
>raid

Ha

A... Ahaha

>>60802567
Yes and Yes.
Use freeNAS or linux with ZFS to mitigate the eventual bitrot of this scale.

>>60802567
For the love of god and all that is holy do not use USB3 or esata or any type of dock.

Zfs likes pcie or sata. Keep it simple.

A shit load of USB hubs and USB sticks

>>60802151
A lot of floppy disk drives running in a daisy chain

For a ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard, how many 2 TB drives will SAS HBAs hold? 5 SATA ports for 5 drives already.

It has 2 PCIe x16 ports

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>>60802151
I don't see the problem
Enterprise HDDs are 10TB a piece, if you have 8-10 SATA ports you have 80-100TB available.