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What motherboard should I use for a DIY NAS? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 month ago by stoy@lemmy.zip to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.

So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.

I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.

Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.

If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.

The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.

Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am looking at a minimum of 16 GB, memory is fairly cheap these days.

What about slow boot times of super micro, I have heard that they take a long time to boot through the bios.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Why would boot times matter?

Truenas appears to recommend ecc. That may dictate what board to buy.

[–] Eideen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Zfs loves memory, vm loves memory.

If you have the funds for it I would get a minimum of 32 GB.