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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: CoolDude64 on June 30, 2011, 01:12:19 pm
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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
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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.
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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
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The Intel NM10 chipset controls two SATA ports which do not have RAID support.
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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.
http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3549&dl=1#sp
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GGTS http://ggts.gigabyte.com/
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