Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H - five drives live so far with zero errors

FTR, HPA is disabled by default.

Board cost $130; has 8 SATA and 1 PCI-Ex16 and 1 PCI-Ex8 (and 3 PCI-Ex, FWIW).

Pretty affordable for the first 8 drives. I've ordered two 1430SAs to get it ready for more drives.

It's in a Cooler Master Centurion 590 with 3 3x5 IcyDocks. On its side with an added exhaust fan on the top/side.

Went 100% clean bringing up three 1TB drives (2 storage, 1 parity).

Bought the Pro license(s).

Then pulled parity and replaced it with a 2TB drive. Built clean.

Added the old 1TB drive as a data drive and brought it online. Clean.

Added another 1Tb drive. Clean.

Re-ran parity. Clean.

The syslogs are a bit of a mess from all the playing with it in the first testing phase.

Should I post them? or wipe them and do a full parity rebuild to show that it runs clean?

Anything else anyone would like to see?

I wish Gigabyte would drop the HPA feature.  I love their boards but too afraid of losing data to use one for unRAID.

Here's a link to the board at newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128435

Good thinking on the link. I should'a / could'a done that.

Like I mentioned, HPA is disabled by default in this board / BIOS. Doesn't worry me in that case.

Fifth drive is coming on-line now, BTW.

If HPA is disabled in BIOS, there should be no reason it will ever interfere with UnRAID operations or cause damage, right?

I wish Gigabyte would drop the HPA feature.  I love their boards but too afraid of losing data to use one for unRAID.

It defaults to "disabled" in the BIOS now.

I also have this board and like it.  Only thing I don't like is the location of some of the headers make them hard to get to with cards installed.

If HPA is disabled in BIOS, there should be no reason it will ever interfere with UnRAID operations or cause damage, right?

Right.  Just don't ever turn it on.

GregoryX and bubbaQ -- do you still like this gigabyte board? No further problems?  I am about to build my first unRAID and this is a board I have on hand... Thanks!

I've had rev1.0 of this board running for a few months and still love it. Just picked up a second which ended up being rev.2.1.

How do the secondary SATA ports run on these? Are there any issues with them?

FTR, HPA is disabled by default.

Board cost $130; has 8 SATA and 1 PCI-Ex16 and 1 PCI-Ex8 (and 3 PCI-Ex, FWIW).

Pretty affordable for the first 8 drives. I've ordered two 1430SAs to get it ready for more drives.

It's in a Cooler Master Centurion 590 with 3 3x5 IcyDocks. On its side with an added exhaust fan on the top/side.

 

Went 100% clean bringing up three 1TB drives (2 storage, 1 parity).

Bought the Pro license(s).

Then pulled parity and replaced it with a 2TB drive. Built clean.

Added the old 1TB drive as a data drive and brought it online. Clean.

Added another 1Tb drive. Clean.

Re-ran parity. Clean.

 

The syslogs are a bit of a mess from all the playing with it in the first testing phase.

Should I post them? or wipe them and do a full parity rebuild to show that it runs clean?

 

Anything else anyone would like to see?

Could you post a shot of your case? I'm interested in seeing how the icy doc 3x5 units fit into the Centurion 590 case. Do you still have the front cover on with the filters?

You can't have the front mesh covers on the CM590 with any of the hotswap cages. You can see how the Icy Docks look by looking at Tom's "Recession Buster" package that he offered awhile ago: http://lime-technology.com/products/rb-1200-server/93

I wish Gigabyte would drop the HPA feature.  I love their boards but too afraid of losing data to use one for unRAID.

 

It defaults to "disabled" in the BIOS now.

 

I also have this board and like it.  Only thing I don't like is the location of some of the headers make them hard to get to with cards installed.

Does it work with the AOC-SASLP-MV8?

Hi,

This topic caught my eye.

I can get this board at a good price and seems a good choice.

Is it running flawlessly?

Is it compatible with the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, 8-Port SAS/SATA Card?

Also, for a unraid should I go with an atlhon X4 or a X2 is enough?

Regards!

A Sempron 140 is plenty for unRAID unless you plan to run stuff like handbreak on the box too.

Dear gregoryx,

Can you please post the bios settings on this board to use unraid?

Is everything compatible and no problems so far?

Cheers!

hi i have this same board does anyone have a fix for the GPU passthrough

unraid-diagnostics-20230924-0629.zip