Asus M4A78-VM Testing

Hi,

I thought I'd share level one testing results for my unRAID system.

Over four months or so, it has grown from a two 1.5TB disk system to its current 7 disks.

I have tried most of the disk add, disk upgrade, upgrade parity, etc procedures outlined in the FAQ and they have all worked flawlessly.

A credit to Tom and the unRAID community.

Thanks

Mario

MB: Asus M4A78-VM

(http://www.asus.com.au/product.aspx?P_ID=daNjn5iQIh14MVvN)

CPU: AMD SEMPRON LE-1200 CPU, 2.1GHz (45W)

RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair DDR2 PC-6400/800

Case: Antec 300 with Lian Li EX-34NB 4x3.5" HDD Extension Cage

PSU: Corsair VX-450 450W ATX Power Supply

PCI SATA: Adaptec 1430SA - PCI E x4 (installed in M4A78 16x "graphics" slot)

HD: 1x 2TB Hitachi 7K2000

        1x 2TB WD Green WD20EADS

        1x 2TB Seagate ST32000542AS

        1x 1.5 TB WD Green WD15EADS

        1x 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS

        2x 1.5TB Samsung EcoGreen HD154UI

Parity check: 72MB/sec

Writing to array: 11-15+MB/s (not using cache disk, or user shares)

(see http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4541.0)

Reading from array: 30+MB/s

Media Players: HTPC (Vista)

Astone Media Gear AP-100 Full HD 1080p Network Media Player

Also backup for: Mac, using rsync

PC, using SyncBackPro

I have added this board to the Hardware Compatibility Page with a link back to this thread for level one testing verification.

If/when you get to level two please update this thread and I will add the new information to the Hardware Compatibility Page.

Thanks

Hi,

I also want to use this mainboard for my unraid server, but I only want to use it for storing movies on it and I only have it running for several hours a week.

Does this board supports the 'gracefully shutdown' when using the power button to turn it off?

Thanks in advance,

Egbert

Just to let people know, I haven't been able to get wake on lan working on this MB 

ASUS forums highlight several WOL problems with their boards  :'(

PS @ Egbert1965: I haven't tried using the power button for a gracefull shutdown.

PSPS

WOL isnt working with unRAID 4.4.2 (Kernel 2.6.26), while the driver for the onboard Altheros L1e wasnt added until 2.6.27 time to test the latest beta...