Sharing my experience with Asus X99-e WS/USB3.1, Xeon E260x V3, 112GB ECC, IT Raid card, 12 hdd.
Excellent stable board. The board has 8xSata & 2xSata Express=technically 10 Sata ports can be recognized. However the Sata Express ports will make the pool as unusable( the whole pool !, disk is detected) especially if i musical chair the ports for case changes, rewire etc. i have resolve to not using the Sata Express ports at all, if needed add an IT raid card. Hope this helps
ps once it is unusable just plug back all the ports back to the Sata only ports & reboot.
Excellent stable board. The board has 8xSata & 2xSata Express=technically 10 Sata ports can be recognized. However the Sata Express ports will make the pool as unusable( the whole pool !, disk is detected) especially if i musical chair the ports for case changes, rewire etc. i have resolve to not using the Sata Express ports at all, if needed add an IT raid card. Hope this helps
ps once it is unusable just plug back all the ports back to the Sata only ports & reboot.