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What motherboard should I use for a DIY NAS? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days 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 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

As it is right now, I have zero redundancy, just my media spread across two HDDs, a future plan is to have two NAS units, the primary unit that I access from my machine as normal, and a separate unit that runs rsync or borgbackup from the primary unit every night.

At this moment I don't want perfect being the enemy of good.

[–] thisbenzingring 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i hear you, you can always just get a add in card for more drives, buy some older but new platter drives and you can make it a lot easier

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

Yeah, I have thought about getting a PCIE SATA controller card but have heard about mixed oppinions of those...

[–] thisbenzingring 2 points 2 days ago

you get what you pay for generally

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