US $97.68 31%OFF | PCIE SATA Card 24 Port with Cables, 6 Gbps SATA 3.0 Controller PCI Express Expression Card Support SATA 3.0 Devices Chia Mining
This is way better than the solution I posted haha, but it's a premium price too.
If OP needs more than 4 or 5 satas he'll probably need to buy this one you posted
This is just general advice, not a comment about "mining" chia.
After you plotted the hdds, the usage is minimum, from time to time the miner will check the plot and it's ok
What´s more consuming is the phase of plotting, but you need to plot only once
To mining chia it's fine. But if you're going to use only SSDs like you said, to another usage, the bandwidth will exceeds for sure
Yeah, I believe 5 SATA is stop small for Chia, one needs to get at least 100TB to earn a little over 30$+ every month so 10TB in five places makes 50TB and they are hard to come by too but in OP case it looks like they are trying to use old HDD meaning they are either from 500GB to 2TB max, he sure going to need lots of SATA slots..