craemer Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Hi there, I am currently running unraid 5b6 with this board and everything is running well. http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A88X-ITX+/?cat=Specifications I had to put a pci nic in because I was having issues with the onboard one. I currently have 5 HDD and 1 ssd for cache set up using all 6 sata ports. The cache drive is only 120GB and with my plex database filling that up I am looking at expanding. I was thinking about purchasing this msata ssd http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=26564 and running that as cache and thus freeing up a sata port for another 4tb. Does this sound like it will work? I thought I'd ask before purchasing just to be safe. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
apgood Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Just double check you motherboard user manual that you don't actually lose a data port if you use the mSata connector. On my motherboard it says i lose sata6 when I use the mSata connector Sent from my LG-D802T using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I don't see anything in the manual about sharing a port with the mSATA slot, so that's not an issue. The manual lists the following for Storage: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0,RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug - 1 x mSATA 6.0 Gb/s Connector (Solid-State Drive connector), supports NCQ and AHCI --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So you're good-to-go Quote Link to comment
craemer Posted August 8, 2014 Author Share Posted August 8, 2014 I don't see anything in the manual about sharing a port with the mSATA slot, so that's not an issue. The manual lists the following for Storage: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0,RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug - 1 x mSATA 6.0 Gb/s Connector (Solid-State Drive connector), supports NCQ and AHCI --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So you're good-to-go Awesome! Thanks for that info. Quote Link to comment
Chris Pollard Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Wow... expensive option. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Wow... expensive option. $299 for a 500GB SSD isn't particularly expensive. All of the top-quality units are going to cost somewhere in that range (Samsung, Intel, Crucial, etc.) Quote Link to comment
Fishypops Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Out of interest, what the CPU that you have in this ? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
craemer Posted December 13, 2014 Author Share Posted December 13, 2014 Nothing fancy just a AMD A4-4000 Dual-Core Socket FM2 3.2GHz. Wanted to save money for HDD's so went for bare minimum everything else. Quote Link to comment
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