gdourado Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Hello, How are you? Still trying to decide a board for my Unraid build. For an i3-540 build, I came across this board: Asrock H55M Pro. http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=H55M Pro&cat=Specifications It has a 16x pcie 2.0 + a x4 pcie 2.0. Gigabit lan, H55 chipset, Micro atx and a killer price. Does anyone here run this board? Any known problems? Good option? Please comment. Look forward to hear from you. Regards. Quote Link to comment
bcbgboy13 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 It looks OK. The only (just a very minor) drawback is a 5 pure SATA ports (and eSATA on the back) - thus you can have a nice motherboard for up to 24 HDs without even touching the PCI bus. Asrock is the value-brand spin-off from Asus so you should not have problems. Quote Link to comment
helio Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I am using the Asrock P55 Pro (installed 3 days ago) and no problems so far: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P55%20Pro Once it is bedded down I'll post the syslog etc... Quote Link to comment
macming Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 It looks OK. The only (just a very minor) drawback is a 5 pure SATA ports (and eSATA on the back) - thus you can have a nice motherboard for up to 24 HDs without even touching the PCI bus. Asrock is the value-brand spin-off from Asus so you should not have problems. Pardon my ignorance, how do you get 24 HDs with six SATA ports? I was looking at a ASRock board as well, but I didn't really like the idea of only 5 SATA connectors Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 You can buy an inexpensive eSATA to SATA cable to connect the eSATA port to an internal disk. Just need to loop it into the case. Quote Link to comment
sacretagent Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 It looks OK. The only (just a very minor) drawback is a 5 pure SATA ports (and eSATA on the back) - thus you can have a nice motherboard for up to 24 HDs without even touching the PCI bus. Asrock is the value-brand spin-off from Asus so you should not have problems. Pardon my ignorance, how do you get 24 HDs with six SATA ports? I was looking at a ASRock board as well, but I didn't really like the idea of only 5 SATA connectors HI Ming with the help of 2 x 8 port Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 's in the x 16 and the x 4 slots and 2 extra ports on the x 1 slot (SIL3132 based adapter) 5 sata 1 e-asata 8 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 2 adaptec or SIL3132 ___ 24 sata ports without touching the SLOW normal PCI slot Quote Link to comment
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