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Ahh then I have a little bit more to learn about parity drives. To throw another curve ball into the mix I will be looking to swap out the mother board, CPU and RAM for an ECC supported system. I trust adding this curveball to an already built system will not throw me off the edge. Once I have done this I feel I will have enough of a working build to install a few automated type backup solutions for photos and video. More reading on my behalf. I feel i am part way there as well as now being a paid software installed licence.

Sorry I meant will 2 parity drives of the 6 drives be about standard for backup?

Thank you so much. It is not showing in the manual that it will disable a sata Lott. So I can only guess that it should be fine. Am I able to upgrade to have this M.2 Cache drive after the build and after I have started backing up my client files? Will adding a cache m.2 drive later cause any headaches that will make me wish I should have installed first? I will be adding 2 more sata ports through an adding card, so will finally have 6x 4TB Ironwolf NAS drives. 2 of these drives to be Parity drives. Will that suffice?

All I can find regarding the Storage from the manual as follows: Storage 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug • 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket, supports M Key type 2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s) (with Summit Ridge, Raven Ridge and Pinnacle Ridge)* * Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks

I am just trying to find that info at the moment. I am using a Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac Series

I have read the specs of this M.2 WD RED NAS 1TB drive and it mentions perfect for a cache drive. Will this work on a typical M.2 NVMe SSD slot? https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/hard-drives-&-ssds/ssd-msata-&-m.2/80351-wds100t1r0b If so I will add this to my build as I am out of SATA ports, but I do have available an M.2 port under the motherboard. Please advise.

I don't think I would be needing massive CPU power as I will simply be using this as a backup storage NAS solution for my wedding photography work. This will be backing up my local drive client media drive on my main PC. So will the 3000G and mentioned RAM suffice for an ECC build? Many thanks for your response

Would I have been better off sticking with the AM4 200GE? The reason I was looking at these was affordability. Build an affordable and expandable system in AND AM4 ITX form factor (as I already had the ITX board noticing it is ECC ready), and still work out slightly cheaper than buying a bigger purpose built NAS. Also knowing I built it gives that little bit more satisfaction. If the R7 PRO and R5 PRO are my only options then I have to work out a way to afford the additional cost.

From what I was reading all of the AM4 CPU Were ECC. if the 3000G is not supported, then could you please suggest which of the AM4 CPU is? I have 30 days to return this CPU to Amazon.

After more reading I have started the build. I see much recommendation for Intel, however reading on quite a few AMD sites I see that the AM4 is supporting ECC. https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthre...hat-Support-ECC-Mode-with-Ryzen-(ECC-Enabled) https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd_confirms_that_ryzen_supports_ecc_memory/1 https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Pro-WS-X570-ACE/ So with this info, I have started the AMD build. MB: ASRock Mini-ITX Motherboard (B450 Gaming-ITX/AC) ECC Unbuffered max capacity 32GB CPU: AMD Athlon 3000G 2-Core, 4-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Radeon Graphics Memory: Kingston KSM26ES8/8ME ValueRAM 8GB 2666MHz ECC Unbuffered DDR4 PSU: SilverStone 500W SFX Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold CASE: Fractal Design NODE 304 Black Mini ITX Case Drives: (4x) Seagate IronWolf NAS 4TB HDD, ST4000VN008 (storage / parity) (1x) Kingston A400 120GB SSD (boot drive) (1x) Kingston A400 120GB SSD (cache drive) 10GB Network: ASUS XG-C100C 10G PCI-E Network Adapter HT So the question with my equipment, will this unRAID? This will be a NAS system for backing up my wedding photography and videography work connected to my main PC.

I do have MB, Ram and CPU already, just not compatible EEC. I did think to run it without EEC, I do wedding video and photography, and worried about data loss for skimping out on a complete EEC setup. But if you gave been running this for years already then it sounds stable enough. Is there a compiled list somewhere that I can read through of all ITX boards that are EEC enabled?

Hi JorgeB, thank you for clarifying. I have unfortunately gone and bought this MB yesterday. Looks like I will need to sell the board and CPU/RAM and look for another affordable solution of ITX that supports buffered/registered EEC RAM. The search begins again. I started this project at the beginning with the freeNAS in mind, and quickly switched over to unRAID for what looks to be a better solution for me. I will go search the forums on supported ITX boards and go from there since the new mini ITX case is already on the way.

Hi there, have done lots of reading on hardware prior to asking a question. So based on recommendations I have ordered and found all is compatible: 3x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives 2x Kingston SSD drives (Cache and boot) Asus Z87I-PRO (6 SATA 6GB/s ports) Intel Core i3-4170T CPU (Supports EEC) Fractal Design NODE 304 Black Mini ITX Case SilverStone 500W SFX Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold Where I am a bit unsure I have found 2 second hand (good condition) EEC Memory DDR3 PC10600 RAM - ECC REGISTERED & BUFFERED. I am totally unsure if this is compatible with the Intel Core i3-4170T CPU (Supports EEC) and Asus Z87I-PRO (6 SATA 6GB/s ports). The CPU mentions supported EEC: Yes, and type of memory DDR3 1333/1600. This is the same for the Motherboard. However I am simply stumped on the DDR3 PC10600, Is this the same as DDR3 1333 RAM? Image attached of the DDR3 8GB ram that someone is selling. If so, then all I really need to now find is an affordable and compatible 10GBe RJ45 Network card. Any feedback please.