I haven't used one, so take these with a grain of salt:
Asus P5E-VM DO
Q35 chipset
6 ICH9DO (ICH9R variant)
on-board video
on-board Intel gigabit
http://www.asus.com/products.a...l1=3&l2=11&l3=571&l4=0
Similarly the Intel DQ35JO
1 more PCIe x1, 1 fewer PCI
no PS2 mouse/keyboard
http://support.intel.com/produ...board/dq35jo/index.htm
Originally posted by: Madwand1
The ICH9R/ICH9DO come with a price premium, so if you're going to be using a *nix OS, then it'd be better to go with one of their software RAID implementations (perhaps even ZFS?) and not trying to get Intel's RAID working there. Intel's RAID is typically more useful for Windows-based builds.
FWIW, Gigabyte also has a similar Q35 board, but it seems even harder to find.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Pro...ec.aspx?ProductID=2728
Q965 boards (e.g. the Asus P5B-VM DO) are similar to the Q35 boards, but slightly older and incorporate ICH8DO. These aren't as good for Windows-based builds, as they can only support single arrays of up to 4 drives despite having 6 SATA ports, but would be fine for *nix builds, as you wouldn't use the Intel RAID.
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
DS3R has 8 SATA ports - 6 from ICH9R, 2 from Gigabyte SATAII.
Originally posted by: Pluto
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
DS3R has 8 SATA ports - 6 from ICH9R, 2 from Gigabyte SATAII.
Sorry to revive an old thread, I am looking for a storage server board and the DS3R (G33) fits the bill perfectly, unfortunately it now seems to be discontinued!
Anyone know if Gigabyte will be releasing a G45 version of the DS3R, the current G45 board offering (DS2H) only has 4 ICH10R SATA ports and one that I believe is non-ICH.
I really want 8 SATA ports! (and onboard video)
Originally posted by: Pluto
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
DS3R has 8 SATA ports - 6 from ICH9R, 2 from Gigabyte SATAII.
Sorry to revive an old thread, I am looking for a storage server board and the DS3R (G33) fits the bill perfectly, unfortunately it now seems to be discontinued!
Anyone know if Gigabyte will be releasing a G45 version of the DS3R, the current G45 board offering (DS2H) only has 4 ICH10R SATA ports and one that I believe is non-ICH.
I really want 8 SATA ports! (and onboard video)
Originally posted by: Pluto
No, at least 6 on the ICH10R controller would be good though. Most of the boards in that link have the Pxx or Qxx chipsets which do not have onboard video, which may be my only choice.
That last one the EVGA GeForce 9300 / nForce 730i board looks interesting, although I'm hesitant to go with a non-Intel chipset board, especially for SATA RAID. Any thoughts on this board/chipset?
Originally posted by: matheusber
I begun now to think about how to recover from disk crash in these controllers. anyone did once that for intel chips ?
are they retrocompatiples ? if I have a dead ich9R, a simple ich10R should suffice ?
Originally posted by: Madwand1
BTW, "RAID alone is not a backup". For the long run, when you're accumulating a lot of unique data, you should really have a secondary backup, even if this means an entire system dedicated to this purpose. And if you have a separate backup, migration, upgrades, reconfiguration, etc,. become more easily doable and less risky.
Originally posted by: Madwand1
If 6 is enough, there are many choices from Intel -- the Qxx chipsets have on-board video. They're typically mATX, and don't have additional SATA ports, but if it's just for one or two drives, you typically have a PATA controller you can use, or you could add a couple of more ports using an add-on SATA controller.