March 30, 201412 yr Hi to all, I am new at the forum (and at Unraid too) I have just build my new unraid server with an Asrock FM2A88M Extreme4+ Motherboard and it seems that Unraid doesn't recognize the onboard LAN (Atheros A8171). So I am searching for a LAN card that would do the job to connect my server to the network. One friend of mine can borrow me a TP-LINK 10/100 TF-3239DL but I don't know if this one will be valid to Unraid. I tried to find an answer in the hardware compability info and into the forum but I couldn't find anything about it. I want to know if someone can help me and give me a clue about it. Thanks in advance! Sorry for my english
March 30, 201412 yr ...welcome to the forums! According to this: http://www.microbarn.com/details.aspx?rid=101637, the chipset on that network-card is of the Realtek 8139-family. It *should* work with latest V5 unRAID, AFAIK. However, it is only a 100MBit card...you will not receive any "modern" performance. Go for a GBit and intel-chipset based NIC...there should be many around floating the bay, even with PCI only.
March 30, 201412 yr Author Thank you Ford! So I will borrow the card and use it few days (I have to add all the data I can to the array because I have all my HDDs full). I will get a 1000M card later to dont limit the transfer speed. It would be perfect if the onboard chipset gets added to Unraid, but I don't know how is that issues managed. Thank you again!
March 30, 201412 yr ..how much data do you want to copy over? At approx 8-10MB/sec this can be a long journey...a GBit NIC will offer 4-10 times the speed. Also, you could use a disk outside of the array to transfer files....approx 5 times faster compared to using the 100Mbit NIC.
March 30, 201412 yr Author Almost 9GB of data... Can I connect another disk outside the array to the MB and transfer the data? Didn't know. My problem is that all the tutorials explain to manage from the network and not in the local console and by now I am without LAN connection. Will try to find the way. Thanks!
March 31, 201412 yr ...but 9GB is nothing...9TB is another number....for 9GB just use the 100MBit NIC and wait the 20mins.
March 31, 201412 yr Author Yes, it's 9TB not GB Tonight I will try to do the transfer directly from the HDDs with the data.
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