Hello all,

 

I am currently using the following motherboard in my 3 year old unraid setup:

 

SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O Xeon X3400 / L3400 / Core i3 series Dual LAN Micro ATX Server Board w/ Remote Management

 

I am running unraid 5.0.5.

 

I am interested in upgrading my drives to the new larger sized drives starting with my parity drive. I currently have 1 parity and 5 data drives. All drives are 2 TB in size.

 

Does anyone know what size drives this motherboard will support. I have not updated the bios since board was purchased.

 

Any information is greatly appreciated.

 

Take care,

 

Jim S.

A 3-year old system with a Socket 1156 CPU will almost certainly support > 2TB drives, although it may require a BIOS update.    But SuperMicro doesn't explicitly note that in the documentation for that board; and the don't publish release notes for the two BIOS downloads they have available; so I can't confirm that.  The chipset definitely supports drives > 2TB, but I've seen cases where the BIOS doesn't implement support for larger drives (at least in the initial version).

 

The best way to confirm it is to hope somebody here has the same board and can confirm the support.

 

The easiest way to confirm it is to simply try a drive > 2TB 

 

 

Did a quick search for your motherboard model on the forum ... and found this thread:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=32916.msg302652#msg302652

 

... which confirms it DOES support drives > 2TB  [Note the drive complement in the system, which includes 2 4TB drives].

 

So ... you're good to go with any size you want to use 

I'd pop in a 6TB parity drive so you're not limited on what you can buy ... then expand away !!

 

Thank you for the information.

 

I will try a 6 TB as a new parity when I upgrade as suggested.

 

Have a great day.

 

Jim S.