January 31, 201313 yr Hi! Going to upgrade my server and looking at this MB http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Extreme4/ It's good that this have 8 SATA ports, that is the minimum I looking at, but how is this working in untraid? AND the important thing is it support WOL? S3 Hopefully some om know something about this MB :-) //Peter
January 31, 201313 yr Z68 Fatal1ty or Extreme has LSI chipset - wich you could normal map 1:1 over VT-d like outside PCIE card and for Z77 you need make custom EXSi with backrooled driver for LAN (and on Z77 you can map only RAW or add PCIE card for SATA)
January 31, 201313 yr Author What is EXSi? is it virtualizing ? if so I don't use that. so can I run unraid on this ? Please can you explain more details ;-) //Peter
January 31, 201313 yr Yeep series Fatal1ty and Extreme are very good - last benchmark record of world was on Fatal1ty im myself thinking about http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Extreme11/ hihi with latest LSI chipset "LSI™ SAS 2308"
January 31, 201313 yr I'm running ESXi on that board, but I did boot up unRAID on it with an m1505 controller (just as a quick test before running esxi) and everything seemed fine, mind you I was using an intel NIC rather than the onboard nic. I didn't use it for a long time (nor did I use the onboard controllers or NIC), so I can't really speak to how well it would work with unRAID. The board has been stable for more than 6 months on esxi (absolutely no problems), and esxi is way more demanding than unRAID (I've got 6 virtual hosts, including unRAID).
January 31, 201313 yr Author to expensive , is there any issues about NIC and WOL on these board ? Any more suggestion for MB with 8 or more SATA ports //Peter
January 31, 201313 yr Author and esxi is way more demanding than unRAID (I've got 6 virtual hosts, including unRAID). Looks very complicated running ESXi So on board NIC and SATA are not good to use with unraid ?? //Peter
January 31, 201313 yr mainboard other .. i dont know but if you search CPU to this mainboard http://ark.intel.com/products/65735/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1220LV2-3M-Cache-2_30-GHz only 17W in benchmark arroud 6000 points
January 31, 201313 yr I didn't test either of those unfortunately. I pass through my m1505 and the intel nic to unRAID, so that's what I tested vanilla unRAID with. I doubt there are many people out there running that mobo with just unRAID, as it's overkill.
January 31, 201313 yr Looking up the atlas thread. If you can't find it Google atlas unraid esxi. This will be in the first link. It's a very good and detailed guide Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
March 1, 201313 yr Since I love overkill, and since my unraid server is going to be transcoding for Plex as it's primary purpose beyond storage, I love overkill more than usual. I am planning on pairing this board with an i3-3225. Especially since the next project is to move to ESXi... Oh, and it's on sale for $50 off if you buy the processor, also $30 off. It's christmas for me !!
March 2, 201313 yr I am getting the same package as you from Microcenter today. The plan is to Transcode and I hear the I3 is perfect for that process. Getting the Motherboard for $69 sealed the deal for me. I wanted to add two drives and instead of picking up a SATA Controller I figure this will only cost me $100 after I sell my current motherboard and my old IBM 8 Port Sata II card. I am moving to 4TB drives so a total of 8 should do, I used to have 14 drives with 16.5TB of storage, this will take me to 28TB. I looked at a system using a lower end AMD A4 chip but for the $90 difference I thought the i3 was worth it to be able to transcode to a couple of TV's. I have been trying to find out if there are any issues with the NIC chip on this Board it is a Broadcom BCM57781Gige. I will let you know how my upgrade goes over the weekend.
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