March 15, 201016 yr Hi, Now that there is support for at least 1 pci express card that fits in a 4X slot and supports 8 sata ports, can someone recommend a well supported board with at least 3 4X pci express ports? What's the best board with lots of these ports? Something with dual GB ethernet on board, onboard video would be great too. Something server grade like supermicro or intel would be ideal... Thanks, Chris
March 15, 201016 yr There are some Asus motherboards that have 4 8x PCI-Express slots (ASUS Crosshair IV, Asus Rampage III Extreme) that will be released soon. They also seem to feature at least 6 onboard SATA ports.
March 15, 201016 yr 775 Asus P5Q Premium Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 (not sure if all slots can be active at once) 1156/1366 there are a crap load, too many to mention but they arent cheap to the point it may be better to buy a 16-24 port card instead
March 17, 201016 yr Supermicro X8DTG-QF 6 * x16 full speed 2 * x16 - x8 speed 1 * x8 Sweet board, takes gobs of ram too!!!! Only thing is the mount is Proprietary. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DTG-QF.cfm
March 17, 201016 yr itll probably fit in any case that fits teh evga 4way... which has 7 pcie16x slots (although at 16 or 8 speed)
March 17, 201016 yr Only problem - unRaid only supports 4GB...... Incorrect since unRAID 4.4final From the release notes: - Experimental PAE support (support memory up to 64GB).
March 18, 201016 yr ...But still a long way to 192GB... Some people here reported successfully building unRAID on top of 64-bit Slackware. So you could have 16 exabytes of RAM. Are you seriously considering running unRAID with 192GB of RAM? Would 64GB of RAM be too limiting for your purpose?
March 18, 201016 yr Unless you have a Ram Drive for your Cache drive, and the power never goes out, then cool.
March 19, 201016 yr I dont think I'd ever spend the $ to get 192GB RAM in my home server, in near future anyway.....but the idea of a RAM cache drive might be usefull for some business.
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