Staggered spin-up is a thing. That motherboard doesn't have it most likely, but they also can't plug 32 HDDs into it either. They'd need an HBA card of some kin

Staggered spin-up is a thing. That motherboard doesn't have it most likely, but they also can't plug 32 HDDs into it either. They'd need an HBA card of some kind, which is more likely to have staggered spin-up.