As part of getting ready to move onto unRAID 6, I  am contemplating retiring my current setup (L3426, X8SIL-F) in favour of something with better power consumption (I run my server 24/7 so consumption matters)

 

I am fairly brand agnostic when it comes to motherboards, but have been running Supermicro boards for some time because of the feature set. I have not kept abreast of where the market has been going, so I am hoping that someone with requirements similar to mine could drop some recommendations based on what they did.

 

My requirements for the setup are:

 

• Must work with my existing 2x 4GB DDR3 unregistered ECC RAM (Kingston)
  
• Low overall power consumption in idle - where it spends most of it's time
  
• Must support one, preferably two M1015
  
• Must have 4-6 onboard SATA ports - no Marvell controller
  
• Must have Intel brand NIC(s) - no RealTek controller
  
• Must be able to support transcoding of 2-3 streams (will be running the Plex docker)
  
• Must be either Mini-ITX or Micro ATX
  
• Could have IPMI (although I find that I use this less as support is only on Windows, an even so seems to be waning - there's always some issue with Java or other)
  
• Could have dual NIC
  

 

My initial thoughts are that it would be something build around a Haswell generation i3, but I am open to suggestions.

 

Thanks in advance to suggestions, links to other build threads etc :-)

 

 

Regards,

 

Thomas

...registered ECC calls for older socket 1156 (which you already have) or newer socket 2011.

Hmmm.. Didn't see that coming :-( Maybe I should stick with my unregistered 2x 4GB ECC then. Seems like hanging on to the other modules will increase overall price disproportionately.

 

Thanks!

..yup, having an X8SIL-F with 32GB RegECC myself, I know how that feels.;-)

I converted it to a nice workstation though...added a x1PCIe GPU card.

 

With your existing UDIMMs, I recommend the X10SL7-F...14 ports right away...works like a charm.