Reddit reviews Monoprice 107638 2 Port Internal SATA to eSATA Bracket (107638)
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This 2 port internal SATA to eSATA converter bracket gives your computer's internal SATA connection the capability to be used with up to two external eSATA device like Hard drives DVD drives and devices that specifically use an eSAtA connectionThe bracket supports data transfer rates of 3Gbps and can easily be connected to your computers available SATA port to expand your PC with two external eSATA connectionInterfaces: 2x SATA 7 pin internal & 2x eSata external Cable length: 18 inches System requirements: Two free SATA port on motherboard One free PCI slot bracket
Also damn handy if friends show up and want a heap. :)
I've seen builds like this one with Xeons E5-2680 v2.
Don't you want ECC RAM?
You can add 5 more 3.5" HDDs if you use the external 5.25" bays. Adding to the 6 internal 3.5" bays and 2.5" bay for a total of 11x 3.5" HDDs + 1x 2.5" SSD. If you really want to use all 14 SATA ports, the remaining 2 HDDs will have to be outside the case using eSATA brackets.
I don't know what system you have, and there are many things that I could drill down.
You could try the edit that OP had tried where he was running one stick at a time and eventually found out that he had one bad stick of RAM.
If your motherboard has a POST code display, that would help a lot or if it has error LED's (like for example, my ye olde Sabertooth 990FX has BOOT, VGA, and Memory error LEDs). Not as elegant as my wife's X470 Taichi....but it gives me a rough estimate of what I need to look for.
Another thing you could try is to turn off UEFI and go into CSM Legacy Mode which sometimes does work with hardware that doesn't seem to play well with each other.
Something that sounds similar to what you are seeing now happened to me with my system. Come to find out that the ASMedia e-SATA chipset was activated in BIOS and prevented my system from booting in UEFI mode and was slow to boot in CSM UEFI/Legacy hybrid mode. In the end, I turned around and bought one of these things, went into BIOS, disabled the ASMedia 1061 e-SATA, went to AMD sata ports to turn the last two SATA ports to e-SATA, and everything works fine.
Maybe try to run as minimal as you can.
Processor, one stick of RAM, your GPU.. and just only that - no hard drive either.
If you get past post and it leaves you with "no system disk". You have an idea that it might have to do with your boot drive. You'll find out if you reconnect it, and you are stuck there. (It also might be UEFI related - you could try running Boot in Legacy in the CSM menu)
If it still hangs, it might be the GPU. First, try Legacy Mode in the CSM options (usually found in the "Boot" section of the BIOS) for PCI/PEG. If that doesn't help, you might have to try different GPU