That sounds so much more efficient than hunting for a motherboard with 8 SATA ports and dealing with all those cables.

Do the drives still show up as separate devices? Its not doing any hardware-raid? I’m just wondering if I can swap to one of these when I need to upgrade my system.

• How do you still have open SATA ports on your motherboard?
• Where are all those neatly tied SATA cables going? I think I can peek them behind and above the CPU?
• What is the card between the GPU and the SSD? Is it some RAID controller?