Chinese NAS Boards VS traditional setup - Newbie trying to make a decision - Help me Please

[hsdb]

Hello everyone,

 

After nearly 9 years I would like to replace my old QNAP TS-453A 4x4TB RAID 5, I’m concerned about the possibility the motherboard will fail, lose the array and the data on it.

 

Because of home size, the NAS is sitting in the living room and the one I have is relatively quiet, the new one will need to use the same space and be as energy efficient as possible.

 

Thanks to the information I was able to gather here and there, reading other posts here already answered several of my questions, but I’m not sure if the configuration below, is too much, too little or simply not advisable. I would like to use a Micro Atx for expandability, but was not able to find a Case small enough and with a hot swap plate.

 

Current use case is for Plex library (possible transcoding sometimes), and to store photos, music, backups and documents.

 

Asrock Z690M-ITX/AX, Intel Z690, 1700, Mini ITX

Intel Core i5 13400F 2.5GHz

Crucial Pro DDR4 RAM 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 3200MHz

LSI MegaRAID 9240-8i RAID Controller

Jonsbo N2 or N3 (concerned about noise with N3)

2x Seagate Ironwolf 8TB

2x Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB (Refurbished but looks new, not refurbished)

1x Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB for Parity - (Refurbished but looks new, not refurbished)

 

Or 

 

ASRock A520M-ITX/ac AM4 (concerned about single nic)

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9GHz

Crucial Pro DDR4 RAM 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 3200MHz

LSI MegaRAID 9240-8i RAID Controller

Jonsbo N2 or N3 (concerned about noise with N3)

2x Seagate Ironwolf 8TB

2x Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB (Refurbished but looks new, not refurbished)

1x Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB for Parity - (Refurbished but looks new, not refurbished)

 

I was also looking at the motherboards below,  designed specifically for NAS uses. On paper have everything I need but I’m not able to find any reviews, or information to understand if these will be a safe and reliable choice.

 

https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ezc3hex (I particularly like this one because of vPro)

 

https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ejv1zbV

 

May I ask your opinion and suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

[Skyfall]

I run the purple CWWK N100 board and it's amazing. Low power consumption ASPM/C-States are possible and there's plenty of connections for storage.

 

https://cwwk.net/collections/nas/products/cwwk-12th-gen-i3-n305-n100-2-intel-i226-v-2-5g-nas-motherboard-6-sata3-0-6-bay-soft-rout-1-ddr5-4800mhz-firewall-itx-mainboard

[Tron1]

I was also looking at that board which has i5-12450H CPU but it uses the JMB585 SATA chipset which is known to have problems with ASPM/C-States. I'm still trying to see if the B760 but the SATA chipset is unknown. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807030178252.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.2f066cc5pbVOUt&algo_pvid=ed2dd0fa-5039-4fdb-8013-f4f99326f104&algo_exp_id=ed2dd0fa-5039-4fdb-8013-f4f99326f104-0&pdp_npi=4%40dis!USD!148.05!147.55!!!148.05!147.55!%402101fb1a17225538432954905e9b43!12000039838472929!sea!US!0!ABX&curPageLogUid=fPzU1IzdQBte&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A

I passed on the N100 as it is a little underpowered and only single channel memory.