[leepenny]

http://tech2.in.com/reviews/motherboards...iew/431312
been looking at this board as it has 8 sata ports - (perfect for unraid build ?)
coupled with a supermicro 8 port sas could potentially give me 16 slots to use !
prices for this board are quite cheap - what I wanted to know - is there a catch? - why so cheap - is it a good choice for a server using unraid
(i'm in uk and dont see boards with this many sata ports for this sort of price)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASRock-H77-Mothe...asrock+h77
any comments or info would be appreciated

[Daemaz]

No experience with unRAID or that motherboard but you can use have up to 4 drives per SAS port which would give you 32 SATA drives on an 8 port SAS card, not 16.

[Harro]

I am using that board with my unraid and have no problems with it.

[leepenny]

No experience with unRAID or that motherboard but you can use have up to 4 drives per SAS port which would give you 32 SATA drives on an 8 port SAS card, not 16.

yeah I see that - but already have a case and have sourced some 5 in 3 hot swap bays so i'd be maxed out at 15 anyway - but thanks for the heads up

[booker88]

I'm using it (the H77 Pro4-M) in my kubuntu 12.04 server for a few months now without issue. Was running with all 8 sata ports in use for a month to finish migrating data from old hdd's, and just using 6 ports now. And be aware that the esata port is shared with one of the internal sata ports....

So you can have 7 internal + 1 esata , or 8 internal sata ports active.

[leepenny]

thats great news - many thanks for the heads up