So it seems it might be time for me to replace my motherboard and cpu as they are starting to be flaky.

I am after a motherboard that can handle to HBA's (at the moment I have 2 cards that can handle 8 drives each but one would probably be swapped to handle more)

So need a reliable board that will take HBA's with no hassles, CPU one that can have onboard GPU/ APU hopefully and stability.

Any suggestions would be appreciated and happy to look at server / workstation boards as I will have probably up to 20 drives in my server (at 14 at the moment)

1. Do you need ECC memory support?

2. What CPU platform (Intel Xeon, Intel Core, AMD EPYC) do you prefer? They don;t all have the same number of PCIe lanes

3. Is this for a rackmount server or a tower NAS case? 14 is still easy to get on many older cases (or Fractal Define), but more kind of "requires" a rackmount case... not the same thing as just mobo+CPU

Edited July 26Jul 26 by denishay

1 hour ago, denishay said:

1. Do you need ECC memory support?

2. What CPU platform (Intel Xeon, Intel Core, AMD EPYC) do you prefer? They don;t all have the same number of PCIe lanes

3. Is this for a rackmount server or a tower NAS case? 14 is still easy to get on many older cases (or Fractal Define), but more kind of "requires" a rackmount case... not the same thing as just mobo+CPU

1. ECC support would be beneficial

2. Not fussed on what cpu but I have looked at the Asus w680 pro that has a thread on it

3. My case is the Lian Li d8000 that can support 20 hard drives so making that many drives fit isn’t an issue at all

Edited July 26Jul 26 by shanehm2