G Speed Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157371 Would this board work? $159.99 CDN Planning to pair it up with an i3 I like the fact 1. USB On Board 2. 10 Sata X 6 "I know unless ssd, it's pointless" but is there anything wrong with the sata controller? 3. Dual Lan "once again overkill" I haven't heard anything wrong with the intel Lan - 1 x Giga PHY Intel® I217V, 1 x GigaLAN Intel® I211AT Sata - 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by Intel® Z87, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 12 and Intel® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug - 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug (SATA3_A4 connector is shared with the eSATA port) If I'm not mistaken ASM1061 is the one that is included in the syba add on card, which if i'm not mistaken works? plug and play? thanks ! Quote Link to comment
gubbgnutten Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 1. USB On Board 2. 10 Sata X 6 "I know unless ssd, it's pointless" but is there anything wrong with the sata controller? 3. Dual Lan "once again overkill" I haven't heard anything wrong with the intel Trying out a Z87 board at the moment. It is not the same model or brand, but I guess the chipset-related stuff is still somewhat relevant: 1. Connected the unRAID flash drive via an adapter to an internal USB header. So far so good, very nice. 2. Running pre-clear for 4-8 cycles on three drives in parallel. No problems for the first 66 hours (and counting). Speed as expected. 3. No luck with the I217V LAN, using a separate Intel NIC for the time being. I was considering that particular ASRock board for a brief moment, but then remembered I usually stay away from that brand. Bad experiences from years back (probably not relevant anymore of course). Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I don't know if AsRock has modified the design with this newer board, but the previous "Extreme" board (with the Z77) was a VERY power-hungry board ... in tests at hardware.info it idled at 57.6 watts !! Quote Link to comment
c3 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 The Extreme models do tend to have all the bells and whistles, leading to the higher power demand. Quote Link to comment
mrow Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 1. USB On Board 2. 10 Sata X 6 "I know unless ssd, it's pointless" but is there anything wrong with the sata controller? 3. Dual Lan "once again overkill" I haven't heard anything wrong with the intel Trying out a Z87 board at the moment. It is not the same model or brand, but I guess the chipset-related stuff is still somewhat relevant: 1. Connected the unRAID flash drive via an adapter to an internal USB header. So far so good, very nice. 2. Running pre-clear for 4-8 cycles on three drives in parallel. No problems for the first 66 hours (and counting). Speed as expected. 3. No luck with the I217V LAN, using a separate Intel NIC for the time being. I was considering that particular ASRock board for a brief moment, but then remembered I usually stay away from that brand. Bad experiences from years back (probably not relevant anymore of course). I would send Tom a message and request he include the driver for that onboard Intel NIC. Quote Link to comment
gubbgnutten Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 NIC working in rc15a. Quote Link to comment
dlandon Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 I just replaced my motherboard with an ASRock Z87 Extreme6 and it is running fine with 5.0. Some things I like: - Has a built in USB 2.0 port on the motherboard to plug in the flash drive. - Built in video with processor graphics support. - Two LAN ports both working in bonding mode on unRAID. - 10 SATA ports for a moderately sized server. I have 8 - 2TB drives in my array with parity and cache, and one 2.5 inch drive I use for daily backups of some critical data. - One eSATA port on the back panel for plugging in an external drive. This is nice for pre-clearing replacement drives. - Wide variety of CPU support from Pentium G3220 to Xeon (LGA 1150 Haswell core). I'm using a Dual Core Pentium G3220 and it has more than enough power for unRAID. - DDR3 memory up to 32GB. - Backup BIOS flash. Very easy to update BIOS. Quote Link to comment
NoMax Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 This board is not booting fully for me. Can someone please share BIOS settings they used to get it up and running? Thanks NM Quote Link to comment
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