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I went the cheap route for my replacement fans -- non-PWM Antec fans with a manual 3-speed adjustment switch (sorry, I don't have model number handy). They are thinner than the fans they replaced. I've been running them at the lowest speed and have not had any temperature problems to date. I've not tested it, but I assume the alarm will sound if one of them stops spinning. Ken

I don't have this particular motherboard, but I do have two unRAID boxes with an ASUS F1A75-M LE and an ASUS F1A55-M LE and both of them are running two AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards. I would think the chances are good it would work with this motherboard as well. Ken

Oddwunn, Like you, I was getting stuttering and dropped audio when streaming some files off unRAID, particularly those with high data rate encodes. I enabled NFS as a quick and dirty test because I read it plays better with media boxes, which typically run Linux. It worked and I haven't bothered to set it up "officially." Here's what I did: 1) In the standard unRAID 4.7 webgui on the Shares page I enabled NFS for the shares only, not under Export Settings but under User Shares instead. For each share I wanted NFS access to, I added "*(rw,insecure)" in the Export(NFS) box and clicked Apply. (I didn't know if the media box needed to write anything to the share -- it appears that the HiMedia/Micca boxes don't.) 2) On the HiMedia/Micca box, I clicked File Manager - NFS - AutoScan (File Manager - Network uses SMB). The box flashes up the message, "Start Searching NFS Shares!" If you press the OK button on the remote again while it's searching, it'll flash the message, "Searching NFS Shares is Ongoing!" After a few seconds it'll flash the message, "Searching NFS Shares Finished!" 3) With AutoScan still highlighted, press OK on the remote again. AT that point I see a list of the shares I exported as NFS. Highlight the share of interest and click OK as many times as it takes to navigate to the file of interest. So all I did was export some NFS shares. I did nothing to the SMB shares, so a Windows PC continues to be able to access them as well. At some point I should figure out how to access the shares via "ShortCuts" so I don't have to do the scan each time I power on the box. Ken

I had the same problem when using SMB. I switched to NFS and the problem went away. Ken

And I've been using an ASUS FM1/A55 board (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131796) with an A4 processor with no problems. I bought this motherboard so I can run two two AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards. Ken

The 3D capability. Ken

What I did wrong was I tried to run make_bootable.bat from the hard drive where I had unzipped the unRAID files, i.e, c:\unRAID>make_bootable.bat f: with the flash drive as f:. What I had to do was change to the f: drive first and then run make_bootable.bat from the f: drive. Ken

Yes, I'm using one in the first unRAID server I built a couple of months ago. I never seriously considered using the card and software that came with it; instead I'm using a motherboard SATA connection with an eSATA adapter. So far I'm happy with it. It's fairly quiet and it keeps the five Samsung 1.5 TB green drives in it cool -- about the same temperature as the hard drives in the PC case (parity, cache and three more data drives) which has lots of cooling. The drive brackets have plastic pulls but they seem to be sturdy enough. The five drives in the bay show up as the first five in unRAID (sda - sde) with my MB. The power LED (I think it's orange) was very bright so I covered it with a piece electrician's tape. I've had no problems streaming DVD rips from the drives in the bay. When I first installed the bay I tried to preclear all five drives at the same time, and the transfer rates were not good. I canceled that and precleared the drives individually, which obviously took a good chunk of time. The rates reported during the individual preclears were pretty much equivalent with the ones I got preclearing drives in the main case. I couldn't tell you if the time to preclear all five drives simultaneously would have been more or less than doing them individually. I'm using a cache drive so I can't really say anything about the write speed to drives in the bay. I didn't do anything to change the default set-up of spin-groups when I added the drives, and it it seems as though all five drives in the bay spin-up when only one needs to be accessed. When the spin-ups occur they do sound to be staggered, so this may be a feature of the bay. Ken