gregoryx

Good thinking on the link. I should'a / could'a done that. Like I mentioned, HPA is disabled by default in this board / BIOS. Doesn't worry me in that case. Fifth drive is coming on-line now, BTW.

FTR, HPA is disabled by default. Board cost $130; has 8 SATA and 1 PCI-Ex16 and 1 PCI-Ex8 (and 3 PCI-Ex, FWIW). Pretty affordable for the first 8 drives. I've ordered two 1430SAs to get it ready for more drives. It's in a Cooler Master Centurion 590 with 3 3x5 IcyDocks. On its side with an added exhaust fan on the top/side. Went 100% clean bringing up three 1TB drives (2 storage, 1 parity). Bought the Pro license(s). Then pulled parity and replaced it with a 2TB drive. Built clean. Added the old 1TB drive as a data drive and brought it online. Clean. Added another 1Tb drive. Clean. Re-ran parity. Clean. The syslogs are a bit of a mess from all the playing with it in the first testing phase. Should I post them? or wipe them and do a full parity rebuild to show that it runs clean? Anything else anyone would like to see?