gregoryx Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 FTR, HPA is disabled by default. Board cost $130; has 8 SATA and 1 PCI-Ex16 and 1 PCI-Ex8 (and 3 PCI-Ex, FWIW). Pretty affordable for the first 8 drives. I've ordered two 1430SAs to get it ready for more drives. It's in a Cooler Master Centurion 590 with 3 3x5 IcyDocks. On its side with an added exhaust fan on the top/side. Went 100% clean bringing up three 1TB drives (2 storage, 1 parity). Bought the Pro license(s). Then pulled parity and replaced it with a 2TB drive. Built clean. Added the old 1TB drive as a data drive and brought it online. Clean. Added another 1Tb drive. Clean. Re-ran parity. Clean. The syslogs are a bit of a mess from all the playing with it in the first testing phase. Should I post them? or wipe them and do a full parity rebuild to show that it runs clean? Anything else anyone would like to see? Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 I wish Gigabyte would drop the HPA feature. I love their boards but too afraid of losing data to use one for unRAID. Here's a link to the board at newegg. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128435 Quote Link to comment
gregoryx Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Good thinking on the link. I should'a / could'a done that. Like I mentioned, HPA is disabled by default in this board / BIOS. Doesn't worry me in that case. Fifth drive is coming on-line now, BTW. Quote Link to comment
shawn Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 If HPA is disabled in BIOS, there should be no reason it will ever interfere with UnRAID operations or cause damage, right? Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 I wish Gigabyte would drop the HPA feature. I love their boards but too afraid of losing data to use one for unRAID. It defaults to "disabled" in the BIOS now. I also have this board and like it. Only thing I don't like is the location of some of the headers make them hard to get to with cards installed. Quote Link to comment
Rajahal Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 If HPA is disabled in BIOS, there should be no reason it will ever interfere with UnRAID operations or cause damage, right? Right. Just don't ever turn it on. Quote Link to comment
selander Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 GregoryX and bubbaQ -- do you still like this gigabyte board? No further problems? I am about to build my first unRAID and this is a board I have on hand... Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Thalasi Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 I've had rev1.0 of this board running for a few months and still love it. Just picked up a second which ended up being rev.2.1. Quote Link to comment
kenoka Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 How do the secondary SATA ports run on these? Are there any issues with them? Quote Link to comment
bfeist Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 FTR, HPA is disabled by default. Board cost $130; has 8 SATA and 1 PCI-Ex16 and 1 PCI-Ex8 (and 3 PCI-Ex, FWIW). Pretty affordable for the first 8 drives. I've ordered two 1430SAs to get it ready for more drives. It's in a Cooler Master Centurion 590 with 3 3x5 IcyDocks. On its side with an added exhaust fan on the top/side. Went 100% clean bringing up three 1TB drives (2 storage, 1 parity). Bought the Pro license(s). Then pulled parity and replaced it with a 2TB drive. Built clean. Added the old 1TB drive as a data drive and brought it online. Clean. Added another 1Tb drive. Clean. Re-ran parity. Clean. The syslogs are a bit of a mess from all the playing with it in the first testing phase. Should I post them? or wipe them and do a full parity rebuild to show that it runs clean? Anything else anyone would like to see? Could you post a shot of your case? I'm interested in seeing how the icy doc 3x5 units fit into the Centurion 590 case. Do you still have the front cover on with the filters? Quote Link to comment
kenoka Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 You can't have the front mesh covers on the CM590 with any of the hotswap cages. You can see how the Icy Docks look by looking at Tom's "Recession Buster" package that he offered awhile ago: http://lime-technology.com/products/rb-1200-server/93 Quote Link to comment
duderaid Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 I wish Gigabyte would drop the HPA feature. I love their boards but too afraid of losing data to use one for unRAID. It defaults to "disabled" in the BIOS now. I also have this board and like it. Only thing I don't like is the location of some of the headers make them hard to get to with cards installed. Does it work with the AOC-SASLP-MV8? Quote Link to comment
gdourado Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Hi, This topic caught my eye. I can get this board at a good price and seems a good choice. Is it running flawlessly? Is it compatible with the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, 8-Port SAS/SATA Card? Also, for a unraid should I go with an atlhon X4 or a X2 is enough? Regards! Quote Link to comment
Venares Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 A Sempron 140 is plenty for unRAID unless you plan to run stuff like handbreak on the box too. Quote Link to comment
gdourado Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Dear gregoryx, Can you please post the bios settings on this board to use unraid? Is everything compatible and no problems so far? Cheers! Quote Link to comment
digital_billy Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 hi i have this same board does anyone have a fix for the GPU passthrough unraid-diagnostics-20230924-0629.zip Quote Link to comment
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