December 1, 200916 yr Hello, I'm looking to replace my WHS HP machine with an UnRaid machine. Just wanted to post my build to make sure I wasn't missing anything important: AMD Athlon II X2 235E Corsair VX550W 550W G.SKILL 2X1GB DDR2-800 Sandisk 2GB Cruzer Micro Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H AMD785G Coolermaster Centurion 590 Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8 Port SATA Card 3x Supermicro 3X5.25 to 5X3.5IN SATA Drive Bay I'll be using 1TB WD green drives for data, a 1TB WD black for the parity disk, and 640GB WD black for the cache drive.
December 1, 200916 yr Hello, I'm looking to replace my WHS HP machine with an UnRaid machine. Just wanted to post my build to make sure I wasn't missing anything important: AMD Athlon II X2 235E Corsair VX550W 550W G.SKILL 2X1GB DDR2-800 Sandisk 2GB Cruzer Micro Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H AMD785G Coolermaster Centurion 590 Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8 Port SATA Card 3x Supermicro 3X5.25 to 5X3.5IN SATA Drive Bay I'll be using 1TB WD green drives for data, a 1TB WD black for the parity disk, and 640GB WD black for the cache drive. That 8 port SATA card is PCI-X and NOT PCI-e. You will be running it in a PCI slot on that motherboard as that motherboard does not have any PCI-X slots. That is fine and it will work, but you will severely limit yourself when you get to adding 8 drives to that card. The parity check speeds will suffer, though you should be fine for viewing media and stuff from drives connected to it. The PCI bus will slow the card down. You may experience some delays if you try to do to many things to drives connected to that card. I would suggest looking for cards that run in the PCI-e x1 slots and the second "video card" slot since it is really x4 wired. check out the Hardware Compatibility Page for a list of SATA controllers that are know to work.
December 1, 200916 yr And watch out for the HPA (Host Protected Area) on your parity disk. Yup, forgot to mention this. You should be able to find some info on it in the FAQ, Best of the Forums, and/or the Topical Index.
December 1, 200916 yr Author Good to know about HPA with the gigabyte boards. Seems easy enough to handle...if you know about it. Since the motherboard has a built-in video card, and that the 2nd PCI-e 4x pipe shares the same bus as 2 of the PCI-e x1, am I right in assuming that I could: Put an Adaptec 2240900-R into my x16 (i can use this for non-video card stuff and it won't break my onboard video, right?) Put another Adaptec 2240900-R into my x4 Put an Adaptec 2232100-R into the 1 still-active x1 and then have 2 plain PCI slots for something like Adaptec 1205SA. (I'm not looking to start off with all of these, I'm just making sure I understand the expandability I will have).
December 1, 200916 yr Good to know about HPA with the gigabyte boards. Seems easy enough to handle...if you know about it. Since the motherboard has a built-in video card, and that the 2nd PCI-e 4x pipe shares the same bus as 2 of the PCI-e x1, am I right in assuming that I could: Put an Adaptec 2240900-R into my x16 (i can use this for non-video card stuff and it won't break my onboard video, right?) Put another Adaptec 2240900-R into my x4 Put an Adaptec 2232100-R into the 1 still-active x1 and then have 2 plain PCI slots for something like Adaptec 1205SA. (I'm not looking to start off with all of these, I'm just making sure I understand the expandability I will have). The problem is that some motherboards will not allow you to add anything but a video card in the x16 slot. I don't know if one of those is this gigabyte board, but it seems like a lot of manufacturers are starting to do that now. I would send an email off to Gigabyte and ask if the slot will allow anything, not just a video card.
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