ASRock E3C224D4I-14S FreeNAS compatibility Question

[Celt]

I've noticed that people have had problems with LSI. This is the board I'm considering getting and it does have an LSI controller.

I'm attempting to replicate a QNAP X70 Pro (X because the first couple of numbers of them merely denote the amount of harddrives they can handle.) From what I have seen, this board can be tricked out with quite a few.

1. Has anyone tried this board before?

2. Would pairing this with a passively cooled video card (for HDMI) be a show stopper driver wise with FreeNAS?

3. Would I in fact be able to use the SAS for SATA under FreeNAS?.

the board (and associated hardware) is expensive enough that I wouldn't want to buy it to test it if someone already has experience with what I'm trying to accomplish.

If the above doesn't jibe, fine. Keep in mind with your comments about what else I could use, that I'm trying to replicate the functionality of the above QNAP NAS above.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Board it fine and video card is a no because FreeNAS doesn't have any graphics.

 

[j_r0dd]

I have this board and so far I've only done the burn in on the system and drives. My case will be here this week and I will finally have the build complete. There is no need for a video card, monitor, keyboard or mouse. This has IPMI so there is absolutely no need for that extra junk. SAS is backwards compatible with SATA so you will have no issue there. You will just need another sff-8087 breakout cable if you want to use the Intel 6gbps ports as well. There were only 2 in the box which are enough for the 2 LSI ports. Just need to flash the IT firmware on there.

Here's the hardware I went with for this build:

CPU: E3-1231v3
Ram: 2x Crucial CT2KIT102472BD160B
HDD: 10x 4TB WD SE WD4000F9YZ
Boot: Innodisk SataDOM DESML-16GD06SC1DC
PSU: SeaSonic SSR-450RM
Case: Lian-Li PC-Q26B

 

[marbus90]

Problems with LSI? Never. It's the only chipset actually recommended. Either LSI 2008,. 2208 or 2308. That board uses the latter -> it's fine.

I second j_r0dd's setup in all points.

 

[Ericloewe]

Problems with LSI? Never. It's the only chipset actually recommended. Either LSI 2008,. 2208 or 2308. That board uses the latter -> it's fine.

I second j_r0dd's setup in all points.

I don't think the 2208 has a proper HBA mode. 2008/2308 are the default choices.