NAS Motherboard N5105,4 Port i226/ i225 2.5GbE LAN,M.2 NVMe, 6*SATA3.0,2*DDR4, 1*PCIe4.0, Mini ITX Soft Router VPN Openwrt Barebone Micro Appliance DIY

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This is something I’ve tried to do each time I pick out parts for an EconoNAS, but it always winds up being too expensive. But a lot of folks want to be able to slowly add storage to their NAS via adding a drive at a time, ZFS doesn’t let you do this… if someone does want to use ZFS as it is a far superior file system, they should use truenas, or roll their own, but I wouldn’t suggest BSD… I do run legacy BSD truenas, but these days I would use scale if I was starting over (I will migrate one of these days…). For the NICs, you just replied to my question about the IBM NICs, so here’s hoping I manage to get them working.

Asus’s Prime A320M-K motherboard for NAS is the cheapest option present here making it the perfect option for those who are on a tight budget. While its probably a bit subjective, I think that enterprise/business gear is often a bit more reliable than consumer products. I agree however that the ASM1166 is a good option - if you get it work (I have the same board - just havent gone that path down yet). It is important to realize and acknowledge that value is very subjective and varies widely by person.

Two sticks of 16 GB JEDEC 3200 memory, probably a bit low, but I want to limit my expenditure at the beginning. nothing special or what I expected but its ok for 6 SATA Ports and 3HDDs + 1 NVMe attached I guess . Do you have any idea what the power draw of the mainboard (when setup in a server config) would be when idling?

com/product/infinity-c-13/ which is way more than I need, but its very good value and easy to work in. Not having to assemble the NAS and not having to support it yourself are each compelling features, but they’re just not features that I value very much. ill also be uploading pictures of the finished product as soon as my final case revision is off the printer. If you are looking for a NAS motherboard, then you can get decent performance from it thanks to its 6 SATA ports and 1 M.

But there is one area where TrueNAS SCALE really sets itself apart from TrueNAS CORE: hardware compatibility. In addition, every 10 minutes, I can copy (using the excellent zfs-autobackup) all the VMs and jails to other nodes both as a backup and as an immediate restart in case of disaster. Finding the perfect case, hard drives, processor, and RAM are all important steps, but the motherboard is arguably the most crucial. so ya, it’s not as good as it sounds for a pure storage NAS, but if you wanna soft (multi-LAN-port) router then these “Topton” knock-offs are fine.

ASROCK does on all their mainboards BUT it seems to be random what CPU model they allow to initialize. Any motherboard with at least six SATA ports and a reliable ethernet connection will work for a NAS. Starting with one of the most basic yet a highly important factor regarding your motherboard for NAS is its form factor. I have thought about this use case for a while since my TrueNAS is on Haswell-era hardware and is aging. Ever since my very first EconoNAS build, I’ve been wishing that I would be able to build an affordable, small form factor NAS.There are also other server-grade features, such as the iGPU present on the board, IPMI support, etc. Since each hard drive will occupy one SATA port, you’ll need to consider how many drives you plan to connect. Reverting to the earlier processor generation can result in even greater cost savings than reducing functionality on a motherboard made in the current generation.