April 12, 201214 yr Running out of room and would like to start replacing drives with 3TB or 4TB. I have tried searching for the best board but not having any luck, might be using the wrong search words. Currently running on a ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO with 1 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 card with the latest beta version. All drives are 2TB so far. Hoping to find something with 2 slots so I can get another Supermicro card at some point. I dont think my current board supports 3TB's drive but I could be wrong. Any advice? Thanks.
July 28, 201312 yr Running out of room and would like to start replacing drives with 3TB or 4TB. I have tried searching for the best board but not having any luck, might be using the wrong search words. Currently running on a ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO with 1 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 card with the latest beta version. All drives are 2TB so far. Hoping to find something with 2 slots so I can get another Supermicro card at some point. I dont think my current board supports 3TB's drive but I could be wrong. Any advice? Thanks. I have a couple of home Media servers. One based on a Gigabyte Z77 i3-3220 CPU and the other is the backup based on an old eVGA 680i LT intel Q6600 CPU. I have been using a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 for a few years and it does support 3+ TB drives with the latest drivers. http://www.avsforum.com/t/1324649/3tb-drives-and-supermicro-aoc-saslp-mv8/30 http://www.hdsentinel.com/driver/marvell_64xx_windows_4.0.0.1200.zip I have also started buying up PCI x8 cards based on the LSI SAS2008 chip So far I have Purchased 2 dell Perc H310 cards and flashed them with Dell IT firmware for simple HBA use 2 other popular cards are the IBM ServeRAID M1015 and Dell Perc H200 which are almost identical to each other and the LSI 9240-8i/LSI 9211-8i cards. There is tons of info available about flashing the M1015, Perc H200 and H310 to the latest IR and IT firmwares on these forums and via Google search Do a search on eBay for the above SAS cards. They are all PCI x8 6mbps dual SAS port cards and work well with the 8 drive SATA forward fanout cables. Drivers can be downloaded directly from LSI for most every major desktop and server OS. Prices range from about $50 with the average being $75 to $95 for the cards. Good deals are out there, just keep looking. I got my two Perc H310's for $50 each and plan on getting 2 more soon. I will likely retire the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 eventually as not much is being done with further driver development of this older card.
July 28, 201312 yr As noted above, the SASLP-MV8 definitely supports drives > 2TB ... and its likely your motherboard does too. Before spending the time/effort/money to replace the motherboard, I'd buy a 4TB drive and simply try it => you can replace your parity drive with it (obviously you'd have to do that first) ... you also, of course, need to upgrade to v5 if you haven't done so yet, as v4.7 does not support drives > 2TB Assuming the 4TB works okay with your motherboard, you may not need to do any other upgrades at all ... just start replacing drives with 4TB units
July 29, 201312 yr I also concur, buy a 4tb drive and try it, most likely it will work fine. Does your current board not have two PCIe Slots?
July 29, 201312 yr Not only is it very likely that the motherboard supports 4TB drives, the SASLP-MV8 definitely does => so as a minimum you can add 14TB more storage to your array before you need to upgrade anything [Assuming a 4TB parity drive, and 7 4TBs that replace 2TB units => if the current drives on the SASLP are < 2TB then upgrading to 4TB drives would add even more than 14TB of additional storage].
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