February 12, 201412 yr Author http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157470 22 SATA3 ports! My heart just skipped a beat! Now I wonder if the board supports IOMUU and if UNRAID supports the "LSI SAS 3008 Controller+ 3X24R Expander" Oh my god. I'm drooling.
February 12, 201412 yr Author ASRock so probably a good chance it supports IOMMU / VT-d $539.99 demands more than a good chance. Researching....
February 13, 201412 yr Gigabyte Z77-DS3H is a lot cheaper (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128547), and supports iommu vt-x vt-d. I have an i7-3770 in mine, and am certainly hoping it will work well with unRaid 6 (haven't tried yet). This mb and an m1015 card get me all the ports I need.
February 13, 201412 yr Author Gigabyte Z77-DS3H is a lot cheaper (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128547), and supports iommu vt-x vt-d. I have an i7-3770 in mine, and am certainly hoping it will work well with unRaid 6 (haven't tried yet). This mb and an m1015 card get me all the ports I need. It doesn't support my needs though with PCIe16 slots and the PCI slots are just wasted space for me.
February 13, 201412 yr Author ASRock so probably a good chance it supports IOMMU / VT-d $539.99 demands more than a good chance. Researching.... Tech support pointed me to the manual for the MB and it says: Intel Virtualization Technology Intel Virtualization Technology allows a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions, so that one computer system can function as multiple virtual systems V T-d Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O helps your virtual machine monitor better utilize hardware by improving application compatibility and reliability, and providing additional levels of manageability, security, isolation, and I/O performance. Which doesn't exactly answer my question but it does look very promising. I'll ponder it for a few seconds more wait until I can confirm that UNRAID supports the LSI 3008 controller before buying it.
February 13, 201412 yr ASRock so probably a good chance it supports IOMMU / VT-d $539.99 demands more than a good chance. Researching.... Tech support pointed me to the manual for the MB and it says: Intel Virtualization Technology Intel Virtualization Technology allows a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions, so that one computer system can function as multiple virtual systems V T-d Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O helps your virtual machine monitor better utilize hardware by improving application compatibility and reliability, and providing additional levels of manageability, security, isolation, and I/O performance. Which doesn't exactly answer my question but it does look very promising. I'll ponder it for a few seconds more wait until I can confirm that UNRAID supports the LSI 3008 controller before buying it. ASrock is really good at VT-D support, so you are likely safe. At worst, buy it from somewhere that has a good return policy. As long as you have the other components (ram & cpu) you can always test it and return it if you don't like it.
February 14, 201412 yr ASRock so probably a good chance it supports IOMMU / VT-d $539.99 demands more than a good chance. Researching.... Tech support pointed me to the manual for the MB and it says: Intel Virtualization Technology Intel Virtualization Technology allows a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions, so that one computer system can function as multiple virtual systems V T-d Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O helps your virtual machine monitor better utilize hardware by improving application compatibility and reliability, and providing additional levels of manageability, security, isolation, and I/O performance. Which doesn't exactly answer my question but it does look very promising. I'll ponder it for a few seconds more wait until I can confirm that UNRAID supports the LSI 3008 controller before buying it. In the UK too. http://www.onestoppcshop.co.uk/asrock-z87-extreme11-ac.html?gclid=CJuamv2Jy7wCFVKWtAodXn4Asw
March 11, 201412 yr Apologies for being late and/or not quite on topic, I have a 3008 series raid controller I got new for $200. I talk about it on my other post in this forum.
March 12, 201412 yr Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 works great for me. Full virtualization support, flexible PCIe set up, 8x onboard SATA (seperate 6/2 controllers) and with an 8 core CPU provides plenty of scope for virtualisation. No onboard video is the only drawback I've found so far. Peter
September 2, 20187 yr Now that it has been a while, what has been the best motherboard so far in 2018 ? (which is good with iommu groups & hardly has anything shared). I have seen certain motherboard manuals(Threadripper-based), that don't have that PCI sharing table listed. Can I assume these are board don't share any IRQs ?
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