Quote Originally Posted by generics_user View Post
not enough sata for me; i need at least 7 internal ports to statisfy my modded v350 with 6tb of storage
The Gigabyte board I mentioned on post 90 would fit the bill for you.

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Info

It has 6 internal SATA 6.0 through the 890GX chipset and an additional 2 SATA 3.0's alongside it (probably through the same chipset providing the IDE port). It should work perfectly with the Cooler Master CM690 II case I recently bought. That case has a SATA connection for an internal drive on the top of the case along with a standard esata connection (both using internal SATA connections in the case). That will fill my external needs and the other 6 ports can be used for my hard drives/optical drives.