GA-E350N-USB3

[CoolDude64]

Hi guys,
Just a quickie. I am thinking about building a Windows Home Server 2011 pc. Strange as it happens, GigaByte have just announced this motherboard the GA-E350N-USB3 as a mini itx form factor motherboard, aimed, the blurb says at home servers. My query is does the motherboard do Raid? It does refer to Raid/AHCI. Do these mean the same? Also, the pcie slot, can I fit a pci card in it? or does it have to be the express type?

Regards,

David

[Dark Mantis]

Hi to answer you last question first the PCIE slot will only accept PCIE cards, it is not possible to fit a PCI card into these slots.

It would seem as if RAID is not supported on this platform. I can only assume this is because of the FCH being used for the storage purposes and it is not incorporated.

[CoolDude64]

Thanks DarkMantis

I now seem to have found another mini itx motherboard the GA-D525TUD. This only have 4 sata connectors but does have an IDE connector which would suffice my need for 6 drives. May I ask another question concerning this motherboard? It has 4 sata connectors and although 2 are white and 2 are blue I assume to diferentiate between sata" and Gsata, but are they both capable of raid or just 2 of them? The 4 sata drives I want to use as hot swappables. The IDE I would use for the operating system and the dvd drive.
Thanks in anticipation,

David
 

[Tiger]

The Intel NM10 chipset controls two SATA ports which do not have RAID support. 

[Dark Mantis]

I normally would agree with Tiger on this but it is stated in the specifications that it does support  RAID on the two SATA ports. It might just be a misprint in the specs but you could always check with GGTS.

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