Bought this motherboard from Newegg

 

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dz77ga-70k.html

 

The Goal was to build a 20 drive system, with SATA6 support.  This motherboard had 4 sata 6 controllers, when paired with 2 8 port sata 6 HBAs, it seemed like a decent fit (and may still be).

 

Some other nice features, were the dual Gigabit Intel based NICS (future support of UNRAID), the GUI setup interface (which is nice), and USB 3.0

 

Everything is built, and installed, and while in the process of preclearing the drives I got my first Kernel Panic (coincidentally, at roughly the same time as the Kernel Panic, my whole network went down (and came back up when I unplugged the network cable from the new UNRAID box, I've never seen anything like that).

 

Anyhow, was just wondering if anyone else has used this board, and what their results have been so far.

 

Thanks

 

Mike

 

I know this is an old topic, but I am considering buying a similar board, the DZ77GAL70K.  Can the original poster let us know if he solved his issues and if anyone else has any experience with this board or one similar?

 

I'm new here and I'm looking forward to joining the community!  =)

 

Thanks!

Sorry for the delayed response.. Everything seems to be working fine, in fact the system flies.

 

The server is being used primarily as a PLEX Media Server, and it's transcoding movies in the background while at the same time acting as storage for all the movies.  I have Couch Potato, Sickbeard, and SABNZBD running, and when a download finishes, it just rips through the extraction and bang whatever it downloaded is now ready for viewing.

 

I have had one other instance where my entire network for whatever reason went down, resetting the server cleared the issue.  It's strange that every device on the network is no longer able to access the internet until the server is restarted.  But it's only happened once, and the server has been running flawlessly otherwise.

 

I can post complete specs if people are interested.

 

Mike

 

Sounds like that's an aggregate link failure (if you have that set up). If a link fails and you haven't configured your link to fail over nicely, a loop will occur and thrash the crap out of your switches.