http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130663 Contemplating changing out my Gigabyte Q6600 + P35C-DS3R board for the above MSI A85X board and a 65W FM2 Trinity quad-core. Would be used for a storage server, most likely at this point running unRAID (boots off of USB). The MSI A85X board lacks an additional IDE port, both boards have 8 SATA ports. The upside of the MSI, is being able to use the onboard video, and not having to take up a PCI-E x16 slot for video like the Gigabyte, leaving two whole PCI-E x16 (as x8/x8) free for RAID cards. The case is a ChiefTec Dragon, which has six 5.25', floppy, and six 3.5'. It currently has one 4-in-3 cage on top with four 5400RPM Hitachi 2TB HDDs, and six 7200RPM Hitachi 2TB HDDs in the internal bays. It also has an IDE DVD-RW in the lowest 5.25' bay, which would have to be removed for another drive cage. I also have a Lian-Li/Rocketfish full-tower case, which also has six internal 3.5' bays, and six 5.25' bays. Unknown at this point if I can put in two 4-in-3 cages into the Rocketfish. I had originally designed the hardware around WHS v1, but after seeing the many limitations of that setup, combined with the multitude of bug reports, is what made me choose unRAID. Currently running with the eval version, which only allows for two data drives and one parity drive. Edit: After doing some research on controller cards, I may pick up a couple of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029
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FlexRAID products feature N+1 and N+X parity data protection through various RAID engines. All of them are non-standard and have their own nomenclature in the form of Tx, where T stands for Tolerance and x represents the tolerance level. The most acclaimed of them all is the Tx engine providing RAID∞™ data protection and recovery.