October 5, 201213 yr I have Unraid running on a BIOSTAR TA890GXB HD AM3. All 6 Sata ports are full with 2TB drives, and it's time to start upgrading them to larger drives. Would this motherboard support them? Or do I have to either replace the Mobo or add an external SATA card? (which way would be recommended?)
October 5, 201213 yr You should be fine to start replacing the drives. According to the specs all 6 SATA ports are SATA 6Gb/s. Both Western Digital Green and Red (Drives I'm using) are 6Gb/s, and I would assume the 7200 are SATA 3 or SATA 6 as well.
October 12, 201213 yr I'd like to know this too.. I'm about to update my system which is a P5Q-Deluxe with Intel 6600 and 2xAdaptec 1430SA's which runs 15x1tb drives. Cutting down to 9 drives but increasing capacity to 3tb drives and replacing the two 1430SA's with an IBM M1015 whilst intending to keep the P5Q-Deluxe. Will be running the 8 data drives on the M1015 so will need to run the parity drive off one of the mobo ports. Just not sure if the P45/ICH10R will handle the 3tb+ drives ok atm. Not really wanting to have to update the mobo and CPU as well if I dont have to at this point. My other option is maybe pulling my Asus M4a785-M Evo / AMD Phenom II X2 550 out of my HTPC to use if that supports 3tb drives?
October 12, 201213 yr I'm looking to upgrade two servers and need 3tb support and 6 ports if possible, I'd like to stay Intel. I want onboard video too. My old hardware will go into other servers for others :-) Figuring out the right mobo is always a PITA lol! Leaning towards this one but need to research more, it's certainly the right price but only 1x 6gb port but for streaming I'm okay with that... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157326 Thoughts?
October 12, 201213 yr Has anyone actually tried a 3tb drive on one of these older boards in UnRaid and not had it work? I always thought it was usually only an issue if using it as a boot drive?
October 13, 201213 yr I can tell you that 3TB works on my ICH9R MB ports (X7SBE) and ICH10R MB ports (P5Q-EM). Neither will BOOT from a 3TB drive but unRAID boots from USB and 3TB data drives work fine. Actually now that I think about it I don't think I ever tried to boot from a 3TB drive with either so I can't actually say they won't but neither has a UEFI bios and it was my belief that was required to boot.
October 13, 201213 yr I can tell you that 3TB works on my ICH9R MB ports (X7SBE) and ICH10R MB ports (P5Q-EM). Neither will BOOT from a 3TB drive but unRAID boots from USB and 3TB data drives work fine. mm.. if the P5Q-EM works ok then the P5Q-Deluxe should i'm guessing.. saves me having to get a new mobo/cpu/ram combo for my reconfiguration. Thanks for the post.
October 13, 201213 yr I can tell you that 3TB works on my ICH9R MB ports (X7SBE) and ICH10R MB ports (P5Q-EM). Neither will BOOT from a 3TB drive but unRAID boots from USB and 3TB data drives work fine. mm.. if the P5Q-EM works ok then the P5Q-Deluxe should i'm guessing.. saves me having to get a new mobo/cpu/ram combo for my reconfiguration. Thanks for the post. My P5Q-EM is my clearing station now. I just got done clearing a 3TB drive that is now becoming the parity drive in my unRAID server VM (Tyan S5512 with E3-1230 Xeon ESXi 5.0) as I switch to 3TB drives. The P5Q-EM use to be my HTPC before I upgraded it to an Intel DH77EB with i7 3770S. I was also able to setup a 3TB datastore in ESXi 5.0 on the P5Q-EM. But it didn't support pass-through so I would never consider it as a VM server. It didn't appear to support VT-d even though it does support virtualization. The CPU (Q9550S) currently installed on it came from a ESXi server that was using pass-through successfully before being transferred - so it wasn't because of the CPU.
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