[Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H - five drives live so far with zero errors]

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.

[Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H - five drives live so far with zero errors]

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?