pras1011 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 (edited) 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, 2022 by pras1011 Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Have you checked https://pcpartpicker.com/ with those requirements ? Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 24, 2022 Author Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) Pcpartpicker recommended asrock z790m-itx. Are these any good though? I will be using a intel i3 12100 with it. Edited November 24, 2022 by pras1011 Quote Link to comment
Zonediver Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) 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, 2022 by Zonediver Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 24, 2022 Author Share Posted November 24, 2022 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!! Quote Link to comment
Sean Moran Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 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+. Quote Link to comment
Lolight Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 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? Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 That Storaxa looks amzing!! Thanks for that. Quote Link to comment
Sean Moran Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
Sorigra Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 (edited) 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, 2023 by Sorigra Quote Link to comment
neo404 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 (edited) 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 by neo404 Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 (edited) I bought a Qnap TS-473A and it's great. Edited January 31 by pras1011 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 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 Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 Edited the previous post. Quote Link to comment
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