January 25, 201016 yr Hey All! New to the whole UnRaid thing, but I have to say, I am pretty excited! After doing a bunch of research, I bought all my components, assembled everything, and installed a Pro license. Specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3003) CPU: Sempron 140 Ram: GSkill 8500 2x 1GB Drives: 4x 2TB WD Green, 1x 1.5TB WD Green, 2x 1TB WD Black Case: Coolermaster Centurion 590 PS: Corsair TX 750W So far, the board is working like a champ . Only thing I had to do to make it work was flash it to the newest bios as it was missing the ability to shut off HPA in the original bios. It is supposed to be able to unlock the second core on my Sempron 140, but I didn't have much success (Didn't try too hard either, as I don't believe it would really make much difference in this application, and may add to instability). Passed parity tests no problem. No GB lan issues. No errors or crashes of any kind after 48 hours... Drives 1 2.0TB WD Green for Parity 1 1.5TB WD Green for Cache 2 2.0TB WD Green for storage Will be adding the 1.0GB WD Black drives once they are empty of existing content. Once all the content is transferred over and parity checks are passed, I'm going to move the 1.5TB drive into the array and put an old 320GB IDE drive in as Cache drive. Which leads me to my first question: Will using an older IDE drive as a cache drive slow things down? Currently getting 40 - 50 MB/s write speeds to SATA Cache drive. Writing to the array is usually at around 25-30 MB/s, so if the IDE Cache drive won't improve much on that, it might not be worth it... I've tested S3 functionality, and it works like a charm. Shuts down as it should. Turns on as it should. I can expand more once it is actually fully operational, if anyone is interested. The board has 3 x1 PCI-e slots, as well as two x16. I have 3 PCI-e x1 SATA cards from Monoprice that I will be testing shortly. Though I don't hold out much hope for the x16 slots, I'll try them out as well and report back! Guess that's it for now! I want to thank this community for all the fantastic information and help threads. I would never have gotten this far without you guys! Cheers, DB.
January 25, 201016 yr FWIW, I've been using this mobo as my desktop for a while. Rock solid. Was able to unlock 2 exta cores on my CPU, and it does S3 suspend like a champ even when overclocked. Only negative is that it does not have ESATA.
January 25, 201016 yr Please see the MoBo compatibility testing in the the Wiki to get the MoBo recognized. It's not dififcult to do, just posting syslogs over in the motherboard forum. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility#An_explanation_of_what_the_.22Tested_Level.22_column_means I've done this with mine, and if we can do this for any MoBo we see in this forum, that list would keep growing and make unRaid more acceptable to others. Right now, some of the comments I see other places is that unRaid is limited in the hardware it works with. I've only been with it fr a little over a month and I'm doing my best to counter that misconception. The more MoBo posted (with various Level Testing completed) the more accepted I think unRaid will become.
January 25, 201016 yr Author @bubbaQ: Yeah, I read some good things about the unlocking. If I was using this as an actual PC, I may have tried harder to unlock the core ... I set the bios to hybrid and enabled the ACC, but did not see any change... Oh well. Maybe I have a non-unlockable chip. I was kind of glad it didn't come with esata, as I would have had to convert it back to SATA to use it for another disk in the array anyways. The plan is eventually to get 12 disks in here. @VampyreGTX : Absolutely will do! I just wanted to get things up and running first, but it's on my list to do! Once I got unRaid to install (My flash drive was being picky and needed to use the HP tool), this motherboard was extremely easy to get running! It should support 12 drives as well (And potentially more if one of the x16 slots would actually take a SATA card...)
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