Reviews for GigaByte Ultra Durable 3 Classic GA-890GPA-UD3H Desktop Motherboard - AMD - Socket AM3 PGA-941

Gigabyte Letdown

Strengths: Works well as a standard home computer motherboard. Barebones setup is working very well. Fast response from tech support.

Weakness: No Win 7 64bit drivers on CD. Incomplete feature and capacity specs on website and vendor sites. No support for raid arrays greater than 2TB, which is not mentioned anywhere!

Raid limitation is a deal killer. I asked Tech-support about 2TB drives as raid 5 or 10. Tech-support replied: (Quoted text)"Dear customer, Build in software Raid feature has drive capacity limitated below 2TB, Any Raid array over 2TB need to be using hardware Raid ( add on PCI Raid card )."
This makes a MB+Add on card combo reach US$3-400!
Nowhere in any literature could I (pre-purchase), and can I find (in paper manual) any mention of this 2TB limitation. I guess the largest Raid combo would be 2x1TB drives (soon to be legacy drives) as Raid 0/1; or 4x500GB drives (already legacy drives! )as Raid 5/10.
Conclusion: If you are looking for a system that can handle hard drives of modern sizes, for raid applications, you would do better buying a server or workstation motherboard.
The total cost would be approximately the same!!!

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