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Martin B
 Post subject: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4
PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:40 pm 
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Hi,

I have thought about buying the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 board to use for my new NAS server. It seems to be one of the few boards with 6 S-ATA interfaces and it has a RAID 5 controller. It would save me some $$$
not having to buy an extra RAID 5 controller for my discs... :)

Before I buy the card I would like to know whether it is fully compatible with NASLITE 2...
Will the RAID controller work
Will the Gigabit NIC work
etc...
Here's a link: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... uctID=2287

Thanks in advance
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NickC
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:06 pm 
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The bad news is that the RAID controller will probably not work as it will not be "true" hardware RAID.

The good news is that the Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit onboard NIC has become compatible with v2.06.

My previous Gigabyte board (GA-K8NSC-939) worked like a treat, with the Gigabit onboard NIC becoming compatible at v2.05.

My current server board is as in my sig - which is nForce 590 SLI - and is fully compatible with NASLite-2, so I would be quite confident in predicting compatibility of the nForce 570 SLI chipset on the Gigabyte board.
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Martin B
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Thanks for the info!

Could you recommend me a MB which has GB NIC and true HW RAID 5 with at least 6 S-ATA slots??

If not, perhaps point me towards an inexpensive RAID 5 controller...?
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NickC
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:39 am 
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3Ware 8500-x or 8506-x (x=number of ports, 2, 4, 8, 12) or Adaptec 2x10SA (x=4,[6 = HP/Dell/Compaq OEM variant],8,16).

I don't know about LSI Megaraid SATA RAID controllers.
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crespowu
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The bad news is that the RAID controller will probably not work as it will not be "true" hardware RAID.

That's a big problem.


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dimension
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Why is it a big problem dude. What you got is fake raid, not hardware raid. Naslite supports only hardware raid.
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