April 1, 201016 yr I've had a look on the hardware compatability and couldnt find this, but what do people think of this bundle, http://www.ebuyer.com/product/180537 6 sata ports on bard + 2 x PCI 2.0 ports that can be configured as x8, perfect for 2 x AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards? which would give you a potential 22 drives.
April 1, 201016 yr i think you should buy it and tell us your results. theres been a few reported cases of amd chipsets not playing nice with raid cards.
April 1, 201016 yr Also keep in mind that this board does not have built in video so you would need an old PCI video card for a console session and maybe even to be able to boot the system.
April 1, 201016 yr Author i have a spare pci card, and some pci-e cards i could use for the inital build
April 3, 201016 yr Don't know if you can get a good deal on this board in the UK but here is what I am looking at for my server upgrade: http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=Gdf0vtpVf72LTYgs&templete=2 - Onboard video - 2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots - 1 PCI-E x4 slot - 1 PCI-E x1 slot - 2 PCI slots - 6x SATA 6.0gb - Optional USB3 model comes with a USB3 chip. Overall, this board should let you run up to 32-34 drives using only the PCI-E slots and onboard SATA ports. (More than enough expansion room given the current 21 disk limit.)
April 3, 201016 yr i think you should buy it and tell us your results. theres been a few reported cases of amd chipsets not playing nice with raid cards. I've tested 1x SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 on both the Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P and the Gigabyte MA790GPT-UD3H and have had not problems running parity checks on both systems and moving files as normal. I've yet to try 2 or 3 of the SAS cards in a single system.
July 20, 201114 yr I just built a 15 drive system on an M4A79XTD Evo with a AOC-SASLP-MV8 card. It worked very well and I ran a burn-in process for a week where I copied 10TB of data to the new array. The first 7 drives are running off the on-board headers and they all show up with no problems. The AOC-SASLP-MV8 is working flawlessly for both writes and parity checks. This is a winning single AOC-SASLP-MV8 solution for a 15 drive system. There's an extra 16x PCIe slot on the mobo for another AOC-SASLP-MV8 should you want to upgrade to 22 drives. I haven't tried this mobo with two cards but I imagine it would work well. Ben
July 20, 201114 yr I just built a 15 drive system on an M4A79XTD Evo with a AOC-SASLP-MV8 card. It worked very well and I ran a burn-in process for a week where I copied 10TB of data to the new array. The first 7 drives are running off the on-board headers and they all show up with no problems. The AOC-SASLP-MV8 is working flawlessly for both writes and parity checks. This is a winning single AOC-SASLP-MV8 solution for a 15 drive system. There's an extra 16x PCIe slot on the mobo for another AOC-SASLP-MV8 should you want to upgrade to 22 drives. I haven't tried this mobo with two cards but I imagine it would work well. Ben That board has no on-board video. What are you using as a video card? Will the board boot without a video card installed (i.e. headless mode)?
July 21, 201114 yr Good point. No, I bought a very cheap ($25) PCI video card as part of the setup. The card has no fan and worked perfectly from the first boot-up.
July 21, 201114 yr Have you tried booting it without the video card? You can save some power that way. Some unRAID users will install and configure everything with the video card plugged in, then power down, unplug it, and power back up. All your server management from that point on should be remote via the unRAID web interface.
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