NASLite Network Attached Storage

Looking to source a new motherboard. Ive notied some of the higher end motherboards such as the GA-K8N Ultra-gigbyte 9 support:



Now i know this board and the slowest CPU that fits it is totally OTT for NASlite it does give you alot of non RAID drive support that would cost quite a bit in controller cards.

I was wondering 2 things:

1. Is anyone runing this high a spec board or can suggest another board with this many HD conenctions
2. Would you think it would be worth going for a cheaper board and using lots of cheap SATA (non RAID controllers)

Why not hop on Ebay and get one of the 3Ware SATA RAID cards. Everything covered there and you can use an older computer laying around or just buy a used server MB that has 64 Bit PCI on it. This will rock your network and be a total beast. Gigabit is highly recomended in the above case.

Mike

that is the eventual plan.


I have posted elsehwere my reasoning in detail but this now the bullet points area:

Unrelaible/unclear RAID 5 expansion (i.e. add a new drive)
UK based RAID cards are very expensive (and ebay ones are almost all USA)
Large multimedia drives so data is less critical.
A failed RAID card may mean in some cases a failed array (aparantly rare) but also may require swapping like for like (which is either expensive or slow to source second hand)

In general however the plan is to move a 3ware 9500-12 soon

Hi Fat,

FYI, I have the 3Ware 9500S-12, and was disappointed to find that it doesn't work with NASlite (at least not version 2). The Server Elements guys say it 'should' work, but it doesn't.

Mike

MikeEvangelist thatnks for the heads up and i feel for you.. thats a very expensive bit of kit not to work.

Saying that Tony and Ralph will likely be beavering away on supporting this as we speak

Tony just responded in another thread:

"The NASLite-2 kernel supports only 3ware 7000 and 8000 series controllers. The 9000 series are not currently supported. The manual incorrectly lists 9000 series controllers as supported."

So, I guess I'm out of luck with NASlite. Damn.