Hi All,

 

I'm looking at building my first smallish (6 disk) unraid system, upgrading from a tired Netgear Stora.

 

I'm hoping to use the Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 due to its low power consumption, PCI-E slot and 6x SATA ports.

Specs here: http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3681#ov

 

I wasn't able to find any mention of this elsewhere on the forum, does it sound safe to use?

 

Thanks,

Martin

(I know zeddy IRL, so this is just for future reference for people looking at this motherboard)

 

Zeddy and I have been discussing what is the perfect board for unraid with the power/capability trade off and this one seemed to rank highly with it's 4 SATA ports (+ 2 eSATA) and 18W power usage. I've gone for the Gigabyte GA-D525TUD which has been confirmed working nicely, but although it has 4 sata ports, it only has a PCI instead of PCIe slot (for future expansion).

 

After having a google around it appears no-one has admitted on a build thread to be using this board successfully, although there are a few posts on the forums about people having problems with it, due to chipsets mainly.

 

The post here and the subsiquent 2 posts state that this board has crashes and a known troublesome network chipset (Realtek RTL8111E). This post just gives some flat out crashes because of incompatible drivers in the kernel.

 

To contrast with this, this topic is from a user who managed to the the free unraid with this motherboard for 3 months without a problem. But after upgrading and adding more drives had problems.