Re: Raid server Motherboard recommendation.

[Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 08:45:30PM -0600, Ram Ramesh wrote:
> All,
> 
>  It is time for my server to be upgraded and I am looking for advice. I
> usually build my machine so, I am looking primarily for a motherboard that
> has several sata ports that is  compatible with linux.
> 
> I looked at Asrock extreme6, but apparently it has 4 of its 10 sata ports
> are on ASMedia ASM 1061 chipset which apparently is not supported on linux
> per what I can find on various comments/information from the net
> 
> All others seem to be X99 or other server chipsets which I am not fond of. I
> like desktop boards as the server also doubles as mythtv backend/frontend.

I usually use Supermicro MB, for storage server.
Lately you can find them for quite reasoneble
price, and fully featured for servers.

You'll have to choose carefully, since they've
many similar boards, with just minor differences.

bye,

pg

> 
> Let me know if this is the wrong thread and I should ask some where else.
> 
> Regards
> Ramesh
> 
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piergiorgio