So I bought 4x4TB drives, and tried to put them in on Friday.. wanting to setup a RAID 10.
I have been having a few mystery issues with my new rig over the months. Various freezes and a few blue screens here and there. I learned that when I got it up and running to just leave it that way (didn't turn it off for months). Well it did not like this major restructure. Dropped in the new drives and the system got all upset. Freezes, would not boot, would not recognize drives, a few blue screens. I did get it up and running a few times, but would end up freezing and throwing random blue screens now and then. I started a process of elimination, to the point I had it completely stripped down to just the motherboard, memory, operating system SSD. I pulled all the other drives and the GPU, using the motherboard HDMI output for display. BIOS refresh, drivers updated.. Still issues including the monitor going into colored snow pattern (crazy)...
The final straw was when it was freezing in the BIOS... At that point (3am) I called it... Used my work laptop to put in an RMA for the motherboard, and went to bed.
Sent the mother(fucking)board back to Asus this morning. My hope is that I just got a bad one and the return will solve many of the issues that I was getting. Otherwise I might just buy a nexus 10 and be done with it for a while...
Cheers,