September 9, 201015 yr This board has 6 SATA 6Gb/s ports, 2 PCI-E x16 slots and 1 PCI-E x4 slot which could be used for controllers. Unfortunately I had network and freezing problems with this board, apparently IRQ conflicts: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7683.0 The problems seemed to go away by turning off all onboard functions besides LAN, but that is not ideal for me and I did not try to isolate the source of the conflict. The board's chipsets are 890FX north, SB850 south, Realtek 8111E NIC. I didn't see other successful builds using Realtek 8111E in the wiki. I have since tried the similar Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H and have yet to encounter the same problem. This one uses Realtek 8111D instead. Update: my supplier tested the board and concluded that it was defective. So my experience with the board may not say anything about its compatibility with UnRAID except perhaps something about its quality control.
November 2, 201015 yr Shawn, are you still happy with the gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H? No HPA data loss problems? I am about to build my first unRAID and this is a board I have on hand. Thanks!
November 2, 201015 yr Just as an aside I've been running this ASUS board few a few days after migrating my old stuff over and it has been fine since. See my post about level one testing. Josh
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