GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DQ6

[toonz]

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?

[PeterE]

I´m also interessted to know.

[lionelhutz]

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

 

[PeterE]

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

[PeterE]

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

[jdubs]

Any more updates on this board from anyone?  Seems pretty sweet.

 

-Jim