September 7, 201114 yr would this puppy work on unraid ? i can buy it here in Thailand and it seems to be pretty affordable http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=700&SKU=600000226 the 8 sas ports i can put also sata drives ... and i assume i would be able to flash the onboard LSI sas2008 with IT firmware ? so 14 onboard drives + 8 on my BR10 + 2 on my adaptec ... = 24 drives all this is a icute 18 and i am set ... i don't see issues with the nics and i3 1200 ... only thing i don't know if tyans are difficult about ram ? anybody experience with Tyan boards ?
September 7, 201114 yr I'm using the very same board with great success. Specifically, I'm running with an E3-1230 Xeon and 16gb of ECC ddr3-1333 ram. I'm running unRaid 5.0b9 on top of ESXi 4.1u1, but if I select the unRaid usb-stick as boot device it will boot right into unRaid with nary a twitch! I have two additional plug-in controllers, one to add two more disks to fill-out my front panel of 16 drives (2TB Samsungs), the other is a raid controller for the ESXi DataStor. The on-board "Intel" controller, the on-board LSI controller and the 2-drive fill-out controller get passed through by ESXi to unRaid which makes the configuration agnostic as to whether it boots ESXi or unRaid. Great for peace of mind. I have several other VM's running (Linux and Windows) which take care of all my daemon type apps such as torrents, newsgroups, media serving, etc. Highly recommended.
September 7, 201114 yr I too am using exactly the same board with an E3-1270 Xeon but only 8GB of ECC DDR3-1333 ram. For not it's running unRAID 5.0b12a on top of a Slackware 13.37 64bit distro. The IPMI is a real treat. The NICS are using the e1000e driver. I will be moving over to a base unRAID 5.0b12a (or newer) on top of ESXi 5.x. Then I will use another VM for my daemon programs (media serving, usenet, eggdrop, identd/authd, torrent, etc).
September 7, 201114 yr looks like a nice board. I would use it. The only thing i dislike is it uses sata headers instead of SAS connectors.. that is not a big deal.
September 7, 201114 yr Yeah, that was a bit of a let-down for me, but at the time it was significantly cheaper than the available alternatives. It was part of a NewEgg Combo for even more savings. I haven't looked yet, but I bet if it exists it'll be pricey, but it would be nice to find a short (few inches) reverse breakout-gender-changer cables so it can be used with the typical SAS-to-SATA cable.
September 8, 201114 yr I haven't looked yet, but I bet if it exists it'll be pricey, but it would be nice to find a short (few inches) reverse breakout-gender-changer cables so it can be used with the typical SAS-to-SATA cable. While that sounds like a nice idea, It sounds like a big point of failure for data transfer. I think I would just like to see a rev. breakout cable the correct length. I assume this board has the EPS12V requirement? (as do the other tyan C202/C204 boards)
March 21, 20224 yr On 9/7/2011 at 2:25 PM, BRiT said: I too am using exactly the same board with an E3-1270 Xeon but only 8GB of ECC DDR3-1333 ram. For not it's running unRAID 5.0b12a on top of a Slackware 13.37 64bit distro. The IPMI is a real treat. The NICS are using the e1000e driver. I will be moving over to a base unRAID 5.0b12a (or newer) on top of ESXi 5.x. Then I will use another VM for my daemon programs (media serving, usenet, eggdrop, identd/authd, torrent, etc). Is it necessary to run unraid on top of something like slackware or esxi or can it be run native?
March 21, 20224 yr 17 minutes ago, tr3bjockey said: Is it necessary to run unraid on top of something like slackware or esxi or can it be run native? I ran it native. But I've upgraded systems since I posted that message over a DECADE ago.
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