July 24, 200817 yr Hi everyone, Has anyone seen this motherboard? 10 sata ports, 4x gigabit LAN ports with teaming function... I think this'd make a great unraid motherboard. Any chance the teaming could be made to work in unraid?
January 9, 200917 yr That's a good looking board for any server application. 10 onboard plus all the PCIe slots could equal a lot of drives, many more than unRAID could support. I count about 36 drives capability using PCIe add-in cards. 10 onboard 2 x PCIe x8 to 8 SATA = 16 2 x PCIe x4 to 4 SATA = 8 1 x PCIe x2 to 2 SATA = 2 Anything is possible but the teaming won't work with a stock unRAID. Look to using a full Linux distribution with unRAID on top - ie like BubbaRAID. I doubt anyone has used this board but the P45 and ICH10R chipsets should be OK for unRAID. Peter
January 10, 200917 yr I wonder if the teaming function can be disabled so that all 10 ports on the motherboard are useble... As I understood from the manual you could at least use 2 of the 4 ports without the RAID1 function... //Peter
January 21, 200917 yr I got one of these boards about a week ago and are performing some tests right now. What I can say for sure is that it's "only" an 8-SATA board. 6SATA on the ICH-10 chipset and 2 (usable) on the JMB323 chip. LAN-ports are working great. USB-boot works. My build will run unRAID together with vm-ware so my specs are perhaps a bit high, but here they are: Mainboard: GA-EP45-DQ6 CPU: Intel C2D E8600 Mem: 4x2GB DDR2 SATA-controller: Adaptec-1430SA (PCIe x4) Case: Norco-4020 Drives: 10x500GB WD RE2-GP + 1x1TB WD Black as cache-drive (hosting VM-ware) //Peter
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