I have been a loyal unRAID user for many, many years now.  I have two servers - one main NAS and one backup that I rsync content to daily.  Works great.  But its been about 5 years and my servers need more storage.  A year ago, I started to add 4TB drives to my backup server.  The mobo accepted them just fine and its been working well. 

 

Recently I just got my hands on 6 x 8TB Seagate drives.  I decided to start to upgrade the main NAS server.  This has an older ASUS AN8 Mobo on it, and currently has 6 x 2TB drives in there.  They work fine.  But on attempting to connect the 8TB Seagate to this server, its not recognizing it at all.  So I have decided to just put a 8 port SATA card in there that can see the drives.

 

I had read that the IBM M1015 cards (LSI) seem to be good with unRAID, but are they able to see the full 8TB drives of the Seagate?  If not, does anyone have any recommendations on a controller card that will work great with these drives?  Or should I just dump the Mobo and replace it with something newer?

 

Thoughts and advice greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

Myles

The flashed M1015 will work with the 8TB drives.

The flashed M1015 will work with the 8TB drives.

 

That's great news!  Thanks.  Do you think that there would be any issue with the fact that this Mobo has a max RAM of 4GB?  Other than CPU, it seems that this might be a limiting factor?

 

Myles

4GB isn't an issue if you're simply using it as a NAS.    It's not enough if you want to take full advantage of some of the newer v6 features -- especially virtualization.

 

Bottom line:  If you're simply adding storage to the system, and don't plan on changing the way you use it otherwise, your current memory is fine.

 

 

4TB isn't an issue if you're simply using it as a NAS.    It's not enough if you want to take full advantage of some of the newer v6 features -- especially virtualization.

 

Bottom line:  If you're simply adding storage to the system, and don't plan on changing the way you use it otherwise, your current memory is fine.

 

Thank you for the information.  I won't be using any virtualization features, as we have hypervisors on separate platforms.  This machine is purely a NAS.

 

That said, can I use 8TB drives with v5 of unRAID?  I'm sure there are security advantages of upgrading to v6, but I'm curious if I could use v5 with these larger drives since I'm not going to take advantage of any of the extra features that v6 seems to offer.

 

Myles

... can I use 8TB drives with v5 of unRAID?

 

Yes, they'll work fine with v5.