Hi,
Due to some issues with a newly acquired ibm m1015 SAS addon card (on an ASUS M3A76-CM board), I find myself in a position where I need to upgrade (change motherboard, and therefore also CPU & memory)
I've been doing some reading and I'm thinking about this:
Motherboard: Intel S1200BTSR or Supermicro X9SCM-F or X9SCL-F (leaning more towards the supermicro M-F, coz it's a little cheaper)
CPU: Pentium G2020 @ 2.9Ghz
Kingston Valueram 16GB (2x 8GB) unbuffered ECC RAM kit.
At some point I was thinking about getting the Asus P8C WS, but kinda lost track of that once the Supermicro & Intel boards came to play
It'd be important to know that this board works with an ibm m1015 flashed in IT mode. Also, it has to fit in an Antec twelve hundred case, so µATX or normal ATX, EATX, all good, but dedicated server boards probably wont fit.
At first I was planning to get a Intel Xeon E3-1220V2 Boxed as CPU, but I'm not sure it's worth the +/- 130,- euro premium. Or am I missing something here that required me to have the Xeon. Encryption will not be required, NAS will be serving no more then 2 hosts at the same time.
Plan is to connect 8 x 3 or 4 TB in RaidZ2 and 4 x 2 TB in RaidZ1, allowing me to connect 1 2,5' HD for OS & downloads, and 1 spare port for resilvering or hot spare or whatever.
Comments or suggestions are more then welcome
Due to some issues with a newly acquired ibm m1015 SAS addon card (on an ASUS M3A76-CM board), I find myself in a position where I need to upgrade (change motherboard, and therefore also CPU & memory)
I've been doing some reading and I'm thinking about this:
Motherboard: Intel S1200BTSR or Supermicro X9SCM-F or X9SCL-F (leaning more towards the supermicro M-F, coz it's a little cheaper)
CPU: Pentium G2020 @ 2.9Ghz
Kingston Valueram 16GB (2x 8GB) unbuffered ECC RAM kit.
At some point I was thinking about getting the Asus P8C WS, but kinda lost track of that once the Supermicro & Intel boards came to play
It'd be important to know that this board works with an ibm m1015 flashed in IT mode. Also, it has to fit in an Antec twelve hundred case, so µATX or normal ATX, EATX, all good, but dedicated server boards probably wont fit.
At first I was planning to get a Intel Xeon E3-1220V2 Boxed as CPU, but I'm not sure it's worth the +/- 130,- euro premium. Or am I missing something here that required me to have the Xeon. Encryption will not be required, NAS will be serving no more then 2 hosts at the same time.
Plan is to connect 8 x 3 or 4 TB in RaidZ2 and 4 x 2 TB in RaidZ1, allowing me to connect 1 2,5' HD for OS & downloads, and 1 spare port for resilvering or hot spare or whatever.
Comments or suggestions are more then welcome