November 13, 201411 yr It is what I have just bought to set up a home NAS because of the six SATA III ports and convenient layout of the power connectors. It pairs nicely with something like an i3-4160, 8 or 16Gb of DDR3-1600 and a Corsair RM650. I am in the middle of my first preclear pass on 6x3Tb WD Reds so can't comment on speeds yet.
November 13, 201411 yr Worked well for me for a month but admittedly not tested extensively yet. Its also been in a shipping container for a couple months while I moved so I almost forget what I did test.
November 14, 201411 yr I have just started loading my unRAID v6.0-beta10a NAS and everything is working as expected. Just in case you are interested in either a shopping list or a benchmark, here's what I used... Motherboard : Gigabyte H97N-WIFI Processor : i3-4160 3.6GHz Memory : 16Gb (2x8Gb) Corsair DDR3-1600 Power : Corsair RM650 Hard Drives : 6x WD Red 3Tb Graphics : none, onboard only Keyboard : none Mouse : none Case : temporary in full tower until CaseLabs X2 is out of prototype Pre-clear time : 30 hours per drive per pass, running 3 at a time. == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 7:46:21 (107 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 7:09:39 (116 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 14:56:16 (55 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Total Time : 29:53:14 I have set it up to use one drive as Parity (currently offline while I load the array with my movie files), four drives as data for a total of 10.9Tb and the last drive as Cache (warm spare). I am finding that BD rips are transferring to the array at about 110MB/s across my Gigabit network.
July 20, 201510 yr Waking up an old topic! I also bought this motherboard for my new unRAID build. Did you update the bios to version 7? Any other comments, suggestions or tips about using this board? Are you using Intel LAN only or both LAN at the same time? Thanks!
August 2, 201510 yr Just finished my build: Intel Pentium G3450 Gigabyte H97N-WIFI mITX 4GB DDR3 Crucial Ballistix Sport Fractal Node 304 White Seasonic G-450 So far so good! But, the Intel NIC (i217V) isn't working; I'm using the Atheros 8161B, is anyone using the i217V succesfully?
August 3, 201510 yr I'm surprised the 217V isn't working. I've used it on a few different boards with no issues at all. The 218V works fine, too, and they're basically the same chip (both are controlled by the PCH, the 217V and 218V are just a PHY).
August 3, 201510 yr I'm surprised the 217V isn't working. I've used it on a few different boards with no issues at all. The 218V works fine, too, and they're basically the same chip (both are controlled by the PCH, the 217V and 218V are just a PHY). Same. Been doing some testing on another board of mine with the 217V, and have had no issues. Which version of UnRAID are you using?
August 3, 201510 yr I'm using v6 latest version... I'm still very new to unRAID; just installed my machine last Friday. I have 2 onboard lan on my motherboard; I tried to boot with the network cable on each lan port: everything went fine with the Atheros one, but with the Intel one, unRAID wasn't able to obtained an ip address or something like that. Is there anything I can do to solve that? Anything (log, print screen) I can show you guys to help me? Thanks a lot!
August 3, 201510 yr I'm using v6 latest version... I'm still very new to unRAID; just installed my machine last Friday. I have 2 onboard lan on my motherboard; I tried to boot with the network cable on each lan port: everything went fine with the Atheros one, but with the Intel one, unRAID wasn't able to obtained an ip address or something like that. Is there anything I can do to solve that? Anything (log, print screen) I can show you guys to help me? Thanks a lot! Disable the port Atheros port in the bios.
August 4, 201510 yr Disable the port Atheros port in the bios. Wow! That solved my problem; thanks a lot for your help!
August 4, 201510 yr To be honest, in my main PC I found the Atheros to perform better than the Intel. I have the "Killer E2200" which is a tarted up 8171. I just run the plain 8171 drivers, and it seems to work much better. I do, however, have the same 8171 chip on my server, so maybe they work together better?
August 4, 201510 yr To be honest, in my main PC I found the Atheros to perform better than the Intel. ...... It worth trying both to compare ... I will come back to you about that guys!
August 16, 201510 yr Here are the results of the LAN chipset comparison (and file protocol; I'm on a Mac) Feeling between the 2 chipsets is similar but feeling on AFP is netter; snappier. I will continue on Intel AFP I think. Even if it's the slowest, I will be most of the time on wifi, so that will probably the bottleneck more than the LAN chipset (I did the tests on a wired connection for a 2,72Go folder)
October 15, 201510 yr Add the following to the end of your /config/go file, reboot and check the Dynamix plugins again. # modprobe for sensors modprobe coretemp modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728 This will allow you to monitor the motherboard and cpu temps as well as the two fan speed channels. I have the following in my /config/sensors.conf chip "acpitz-virtual-0" label temp1 "MB Temp" label temp2 "CPU Temp" I have not created labels for the fans yet but it8728 - pwm1 is CPUFAN and it8728 - pwm2 is SYSFAN.
October 15, 201510 yr ok and how do I modify this file? now I don't have any sensors.conf file; I suppose it will appear after I did the previous command? edit: I did echo "# modprobe for sensors modprobe coretemp modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728" >> /boot/config/go don't know if that is the good ting to do... I also created my sensors.conf from a text file with the lines you proposed and I now have system fan info (CPU fan only which is fine as my others fan run from molex) but still no CPU temp; "Detect" key in the plugin isn't detecting anything...
October 17, 201510 yr Here are my settings Config folder: go file: sensors.conf file Can anyone check and confirm if there is anything wrong? thanks a lot!
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