sacretagent Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 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 ? Quote Link to comment
jimwhite Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 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). Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 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) Quote Link to comment
jimwhite Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 works fine with my Corsair 750 ! Quote Link to comment
tr3bjockey Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
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