Chinese motherboard manufacturer Onda has launched the new Chia-D32H-D4 motherboard with 32 SATA ports for hard drives and SSDs. It is obviously designed for mining and not to compete with gaming motherboards.
The Chia-D32H-D4 motherboard is probably a rebranded version of Onda's existing B365 D32-D4 motherboard. It measures 530 x 310mm, so the Chia-D32H-D4 is not your typical motherboard. The unspecified 800W PSU arrives 80Plus Gold certified, while the case features five cooling fans.
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If you have 32 hard drives, this motherboard will get you Chia
The selling point of Chia-D32H-D4 is obviously the 32 SATA ports on the motherboard, allowing you to leverage up to 32 hard drives. The B365 chipset can only provide a limited number of SATA ports, so Chia-D32H-D4 relies on a third-party SATA controller to increase support up to 32.
At 18GB per drive, the motherboard can accommodate up to 576GB of storage for all your Chia mining activities, enough for around 5.760 101,4 GiB plots. Based on current Chia network statistics, that would be enough for about 0.05% of Chia's total network space, although it is likely to decline rapidly in the coming days if the cryptocurrency continues to become increasingly popular.
It comes equipped with a standard 24-pin power connector, an 8-pin EPS connector, and up to two 6-pin PCIe power connectors. The latter is designed exclusively to power hard drives.
It supports Intel Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake and Coffee Lake Refresh processors. The motherboard uses a modest six-phase power supply subsystem, but it should be sufficient to house processors up to the Core i9 level.
In addition to deep storage requirements, Chia mining is also memory dependent. A single Chia spot requires around 4GB of memory. The Chia-D32H-D4 offers four DDR4 memory slots, providing the opportunity to have up to 128GB of memory in the system. On paper, you can plot up to 32 parcels in parallel. For now, its release date and price are not known, but it is most likely that this motherboard is only made to order for miners, since it would have a very low demand for domestic consumption.
Source: Tom's Hardware
