November 22, 20223 yr I want to make the switch over to 2.5gbe as my WD Gold can write at about 250MB/s. Motherboard needs to have 4 sata ports and maybe WiFi 6e. Which motherboard is recommended? Edited November 22, 20223 yr by pras1011
November 24, 20223 yr Author Pcpartpicker recommended asrock z790m-itx. Are these any good though? I will be using a intel i3 12100 with it. Edited November 24, 20223 yr by pras1011
November 24, 20223 yr 36 minutes ago, pras1011 said: Pcpartpicker recommended asrock z790m-itx. Are these any good though? I will be using a intel i3 12100f with it. Why a F-CPU? The iGPU from Intel is always "nice to have" - buy a normal 12100 👍 FYI: I use ASRock Boards since 2010 - never had problems with it. At the moment, i use six PCs with ASRock Baords - all are working well. The oldest is a i7-3770k and still working 👍 Edited November 24, 20223 yr by Zonediver
November 24, 20223 yr Author Yes I will need igpu. I will look at the asrock z690m as well but the price is very close to the z790m. All this expensive change just to have 2.5gbe!!
February 12, 20233 yr I'm a little late to the party but I just built my first unraid server with this motherboard from AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804565944286.html Intel Celeron n5105 4x Intel 2.5 GB ports 2x 2280 m.2 NVME slots 6x Sata connectors (5x using the JMicron JMB58X controller and 1x on the soc) 2x DDR4 sodimm slots 2x onboard internal usb 2.0 slots Cost was about $150 This appears to be the same motherboard used for the new Storaxa kickstarter nas: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storaxa/fully-customizable-home-cloud-storage-with-remote-access-nas/description Not a beast but a good replacement for my Synology 1019+.
February 13, 20233 yr 14 hours ago, Sean Moran said: I'm a little late to the party but I just built my first unraid server with this motherboard from AliExpress: Welcome! So how's your experience so far? What's your usage case in Unraid?
February 13, 20233 yr 5 hours ago, Lolight said: Welcome! So how's your experience so far? What's your usage case in Unraid? Thanks for the welcome! Some bumps in the road here and there (mainly with plex intel hw transcoding right now) but overall I like the control over where all my files are stored. There's nothing obscured from the user as in the Synology world such as where your docker and vm images are stored. Use case is just serving media files for the family, doing pc backups and storing backups from my proxmox servers. 5 hours ago, pras1011 said: That Storaxa looks amzing!! Thanks for that. Welcome!.. it does look amazing but I'm not sure how the software side is going to work. It says they are using openwrt, truenas scale and proxmox all in one. It doesn't sound like something the average user can manage.
February 28, 20233 yr If do not need rum a lot of VM 4 x 2.5 Gbs NIC 6 x Sata 2 x NVME 2 x Internal USB https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004761199532.html Edited February 28, 20233 yr by Sorigra
January 31, 20242 yr any suggestion to a board with the ryzen 7 cpu? i think the kickstarter campaign is dead and my money is gone.... Edited February 2, 20242 yr by neo404
January 31, 20242 yr Author I bought a Qnap TS-473A and it's great. Edited January 31, 20242 yr by pras1011
January 31, 20242 yr 4 minutes ago, pras1011 said: Minisforum UM790 Pro You are using that as Unraid NAS? USB not recommended for array or pools for many reasons
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