GA-F2A85XM-HD3 (rev. 1.2)

smackoz · Post by **smackoz** » 22 Jul 2013 18:12

Can anyone offer advice on the GigaByte GA-F2A85XM-HD3 (rev. 1.2) motherboard?
Pros / Cons / Hardware compatibility with Nas4Free etc.

Looking to upgrade my 5 year old NAS server.
Thanks in advance

Post by **apollo567** » 22 Jul 2013 19:24

I am not sure if this Hardware is not too new to be supported by FreeBSD 9 (check Hardware compatibility). Also the Graphics Hardware of the FM2 Series is overdone for this kind of Use, not to talk of energy consumption, Would go for a Socket 1155 based solution (like a i3 or Pentium G2020) , this would be more suitable for a usual NAS-usage....

Lee Sharp · Post by **Lee Sharp** » 23 Jul 2013 03:16

Some of the newer Gigabytes are using unsupported nics. I have one I had to get an add in nic for... Might want to look at older stuff.

smackoz · Post by **smackoz** » 23 Jul 2013 03:46

Many thanks for your comments and suggestions.

Post by **b0ssman** » 23 Jul 2013 07:24

here is a good read about hardware for zfs.

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/so-yo ... ons.12276/

smackoz · Post by **smackoz** » 23 Jul 2013 09:31

b0ssman wrote:here is a good read about hardware for zfs.

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/so-yo ... ons.12276/

Most helpful.

smackoz · Post by **smackoz** » 24 Jul 2013 06:22

This looks interesting: Supermicro X10SLH-F motherboard released.

See http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... 0SLH-F.cfm
And see http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=39194

Post by **b0ssman** » 24 Jul 2013 07:03

yes it looks like a good one. IPMI, internal usb header etc..

only thing i am unsure about are the intel nics.
they only introduced support in freebsd 8.4 which came out after freebsd 9.1.

so you might have to wait till august when freebsd 9.2 comes out.

smackoz · Post by **smackoz** » 24 Jul 2013 07:18

b0ssman wrote:yes it looks like a good one. IPMI, internal usb header etc..

only thing i am unsure about are the intel nics.
they only introduced support in freebsd 8.4 which came out after freebsd 9.1.

so you might have to wait till august when freebsd 9.2 comes out.

Thanks
Then this will be a top-of-the-list wait and see over the next 2-3 months to verify how this M/B compatibility pans out before committing and updating my antiquated NAS system.

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