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What motherboard should I use for a DIY NAS? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.

So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.

I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.

Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.

If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.

The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.

Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm using this for my TrueNAS Setup and it's working fine:

https://aliexpress.com/item/1005005272971853.html

Can it be trusted? I don't know. But it works for my setup. It doesn't have ECC, but I don't care. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting, can you send me the modelnumber as I can't seem to navigate away from the german language in Ali Express?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but the model name is:

Intel 4x i226-V 2,5G LANs 6-Bay N100 N150 i3-N305 N355 NAS Motherboard 2*NVMe 6*SATA3.0 DDR5 Mini ITX Mainboard PCIex1 Typ-C

Maybe try searching for "Topton official store" on Aliexpress and try navigating from there.. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, thank you!

This seems like exactly what I need!