8 core Atom? Quad GbE Network? Dual SAS controllers? Asus has you covered


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ASUS C2750 (Eight Core ATOM) (P9A-I/C2750/SAS/4L)

http://www.asus.com/us/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/P9AIC2750SAS4L/

 

Interesting to note that one person that has it mentioned that there are driver issues:

Pros: Seems like a quality board.

Cons: Does not boot FreeNAS/NAS4Free. Driver incompatibility with the NIC and SAS cards.

Other Thoughts: This was an ideal board for my needs but does not have drivers available for BSD 9 based OS's.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132230

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Isn't the C2550 only 2 cores 4 threads?  or am I missing something.  Decent board if you don't need CPU.

 

C2550 4 cores - 4 threads - http://ark.intel.com/products/77982

 

C2750 8 cores - 8 threads - http://ark.intel.com/products/77987

 

Take your pick.  :)

 

People seem to have had issues with the Asrock Avoton boards and unRAID, or maybe it's still a bit early for everything to be stable.  Maybe the Asus boards will do better.

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Can anyone in here confirm whether these are issues with these motherboards? Seen one person say he's running them fine but plenty of others saying they've had problems.

Seems perfect though, 12 sata on any board is immense, let alone ITX.

 

 

So as per above, has anyone built a system using the ASUS P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L  board? Interested to hear about any issues encountered (if any)?

 

cheers

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Don't have the ASUS board, but I have a server with a Supermicro MB (See my sig).

 

Works fine with one minor 'problem'. Sometimes, when I reboot, the network speed is 100 instead of 1000. Easely solved with a ssh login and the use of ethtool, and prevenable by not rebooting  :D.

 

All in all I'm happy with this board and would buy another one...

 

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I have asrock C2550D4I runing unraid 6b14 WORK PERFECT but its necesary update marvel firmware(old versions have a bug that the sata disconnects the HDD  on intensive process like parity check)

 

After update bios and marvel controller(very easy process) all work perfect, Power consumption 34W all HDD spin down WIth a Gold PSU.

 

The only problem I have if that I cannot control Fan speed from unRAID :( I want to stop fans when HDD Spin down.

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... The only problem I have if that I cannot control Fan speed from unRAID :( I want to stop fans when HDD Spin down.

 

So don't power the fans from the motherboard.  Buy a thermal fan controller and connect the fans to that (it will connect to a molex connector from the PSU)

 

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I have asrock C2550D4I runing unraid 6b14 WORK PERFECT but its necesary update marvel firmware(old versions have a bug that the sata disconnects the HDD  on intensive process like parity check)

 

After update bios and marvel controller(very easy process) all work perfect, Power consumption 34W all HDD spin down WIth a Gold PSU.

 

The only problem I have if that I cannot control Fan speed from unRAID :( I want to stop fans when HDD Spin down.

 

Where did you find the Marvel firmware?  I would like to check it out prior to buying.  I couldn't find anything on this.

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