mikeyrad Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I'm looking to build a new unraid server - I settled on most of the components already, the only thing I'm kind of torn about right now is the motherboard...you guys have experience with either of these, and which would you go with? The proc is an E3-1245v5, here are the boards: Supermicro X11SSH-F-O ASUS P10S Quote Link to comment
Qtrmeg Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I'm looking to build a new unraid server - I settled on most of the components already, the only thing I'm kind of torn about right now is the motherboard...you guys have experience with either of these, and which would you go with? The proc is an E3-1245v5, here are the boards: Supermicro X11SSH-F-O ASUS P10S Both of those have a M2 slot you can use at the expense of a Sata port, and only have 3 PCIe slots. Assuming you plan to use a mATX case a couple other boards you can look at with 4 PCIe slots are >>> SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SSM-F-O ASRock C236M WS The Supermicro boards support IPMI, but only support VGA display & have no on board sound, (I don't know how much value those last items have anymore). Quote Link to comment
mikeyrad Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 Thanks for the quick response, I'll check those out! I don't have any particular need for display ports or audio....this is essentially going to be a headless server hosting all my data, as well as docker/VMs to run various applications. Quote Link to comment
dandus Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Just curious, why don't you consider SuperMicro X11SSL-CF? I has 6xSATA and 8xSAS Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Both of those have a M2 slot you can use at the expense of a Sata port, Only if you're using a SATA M.2 SSD. No-one should need to buy a SATA M.2, there's little point compared to normal 2.5" SSD drives. Almost all my M.2 drives are PCI-E, some are AHCI and some are NVMe. NVMe is the fastest. unRAID now supports NVMe, which is great. Quote Link to comment
morti Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I heared of a case where sata ports got "blocked" by a m2 which were connected by PCI-E, I can not find the post again though. Maybe try to find some 1st hand experience with that board somewhere. Quote Link to comment
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