I'm looking to upgrade my unraid box. I have always used Intel processors and most of the time Asus mainboards. Can anyone recommend an Asus board that is capable of a new processor and works with unraid with the built on NIC? I would also like to feature of being able to access the bios remotely so I can truly run a headless system and won't ever need to hook up an LCD display. My current setup is working ok, it is just many years old and I want to update a few things. My array is 28TB and I have 5TB free. I've been slowly replacing my 1TB drives with 4TB drives. That's been like a half year thing, since the drives I buy aren't cheap. I only buy the WD Black drives. Not for the speed really, but just for that 5 year warranty. I've had several drives go bad on me after 3+ years and it didn't cost me anything to have them replaced. Then again I'm still buying new drives so it never ends.

 

 

 

Well, it sounds like you want a board with IPMI, or the equivalent from other manufacturers (intel has one I know, and HP does I think).

 

Something like the Supermicro board we use in our builds would work just fine.  I prefer the Supermicro X9SCM-iiF, and then adding in whatever processor best fits your needs and the RAM for the new board.