ASRock H87WS-DL

[jknight]

Hi all.  I bought a Dell T20 for the virtualization, but it only supports 4 drives, and I can't find a SATA card that works reliably with it (even the Dell recommended one).  Plus the case is kinda small.  So I am going to get a new motherboard and keep the CPU and memory from that system, but I want to keep the price low.  I think that the ASRock H87WS-DL will work well and its about $110.  It has 8 SATA ports and can handle ECC memory according to ASRocks website.  I

 

I will put putting on this board these parts from the Dell system:

 

Xeon E3-1225 v3

Hynix HMT451U7BFR8A-PB 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz ECC CL11 Server Memory

 

Anyone see any issues with this before I order?  Or an alternate suggestion that is similar in price?  I use the system for unRaid, VM and plan to do something like Plex.

 

Thanks much! - Jeff

[HellDiverUK]

It'll work with ECC RAM, but the ECC function won't work.  You need a C2xx chipset for ECC to actually work.

[jknight]

Thanks.  So the ASRock C226M is the same price, and it appears to fully support ECC memory, but only has 6 SATA ports.  I supposed that tradeoff is OK since I can add a SATA card, which I already have.  So the ASRock C226M is probably a better board to use?

[jknight]

I have ordered the ASRock C226M WS.  I will reply back when its up and running.

[jknight]

Its been running fine.  UnRaid came up no problems and my VM env is working.

[HellDiverUK]

The H87-WS has dual Realtek NICs, hasn't it?  I had the Q87-WS and it had dual Intel NICs.  Then it died.