Well, I've decided on using a Turion to get low power consumption (for 24/7 operation).
There don't appear to be any 754 pin motherboards with gigE and 8 SATA headers.
Most I could find is 6. There are two boards, one with VIA chipset, and the other with nForce3.
I think I'll be using...
I appreciate all your comments and suggestions.
I will be looking at a solution that involves installing a card with SATA headers or ports, as well as RyanVM's MSI board.
But, does anyone know if there are other motherboards with 8 on-board SATA headers, that have less fancy (or none)...
Thank you for the suggestions.
Thank you for identifying the "get a SATA card" option.
How about Pentium M motherboards? Thinking of minimizing power consumption now (for 24x7 operation). I have never considered them before. If I relax the constraint of 8 on-board SATA ports (by...
I'd like to build a file (media) server.
It will only be a server, so don't care about on-board audio and video. I would like onboard gigE (jumbo packet capable) on a separate bus from PCI. Would also like 8 SATA ports and 2 IDE ports. (I want to run Linux and do S/W RAID).
I have...
Folks,
I was very interested in the 4PCA3+ to build a RAIDed (4 drive) Linux/Samba dedicated media server on a gigabit ethernet home LAN. Then I learned that this board doesn't use CSA. Might some knowledgable souls answer some questions for me, please?
1) Doesn't failure to use CSA mean...
Thank you for the suggestion, techfuzz.
I think it's close, but not quite what I'm looking for. Wanting to build a media server. Would like to use RAID 5 or 3. Linux. The SATA drives just don't quite seem to be there in terms of capacity and price, yet. So, I'm planning on 250G IDE drives...
I was very interested to see that the VR-Zone review indicated the presence of CSA gigabit ethernet. But, then the seeming confirmation that it is not to be so.
Does anyone know if there exists a motherboard with both CSA gigabit ethernet and 4 additional IDE (in addition to the usual primary...
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