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Itx Nas/Server Build
Thinking of buying this board
http://asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I#Specifications
and this case.
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=452
Machines going to be a NAS but I also want the ability to run a few small VM's that mostly idle (E.g my seafile server)
Does anyone have any experience of the Asrock server boards? I know supermicro also do a C2750 based board but I don't believe it has the extra sata ports the Asrock has.
Any alternative I should be looking at?
Needs plenty of Sata ports and ideally IPMI with KVMoIP or at a minimum the ability to auto power-on when AC power is applied (I have an external KVMoIP if needed).
Also after a fairly low power usage on the board/cpu if possible as I suspect when fully populated the drives alone will be fairly power hungry I'd rather keep the total power usage as low as possible.
Not worried about H/W raid as I'd prefer to expose all the drives as JBOD and manage them in software.
Comments
go for a powerfull dual core instead http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-intel-pdc-anniversary-bundle--includes-h81m-plus--intel-pdc-g3258--8gb-vengeance-memory--9MBS.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc product search&utm_campaign=Components and Storage - Motherboards and Processors - Motherboards
I'm more concerned with power draw then raw CPU power, also that board wouldn't fit in the case and only has 4 sata's meaning I'd need an additional sata/raid card for the remaining drive bays.