theozaurus
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Hi,
I'm looking at building my own FreeNAS box. This is to serve a home network where
it'll be used to share movies, backups and stream MP3's via uPnP. I'd like to
start off with about 6TB of storage.
Reading around it seems my best bet is to aim for:
However, I can't find a motherboard that actually does all of this that is
easily available in the UK. The Supermicro X9SCM-iiF looks perfect, but I can't
find it anywhere - or it's priced at £200. The Intel S1200BTSR is also hard to
find. The only board I have found is the Asus P8B-M which looks great, but it
doesn't appear to support G2000 processors, so I'd have to go for a Xeon to get
ECC and this would destroy and cost advantage over getting another board.
Strangely the Asus P8B-WS does support the G2000 processors, but this isn't
Micro ATX
Even more strangely the Asus P8B-M does support a G2020T, but not a G2020 - and of course a type T processor is not easily available.
What boards are UK builders using? Shall I through caution to the wind and buy
a P8B-M and see if it runs with a G2020, or G2030?
Thanks
Theo
I'm looking at building my own FreeNAS box. This is to serve a home network where
it'll be used to share movies, backups and stream MP3's via uPnP. I'd like to
start off with about 6TB of storage.
Reading around it seems my best bet is to aim for:
- G2000 series Intel Pentium processor to get cheap ECC support
- Socket 1155 motherboard with ECC and IPMI in Micro ATX form
- 16Gb of RAM
- Disks, Case, PSU, etc.
However, I can't find a motherboard that actually does all of this that is
easily available in the UK. The Supermicro X9SCM-iiF looks perfect, but I can't
find it anywhere - or it's priced at £200. The Intel S1200BTSR is also hard to
find. The only board I have found is the Asus P8B-M which looks great, but it
doesn't appear to support G2000 processors, so I'd have to go for a Xeon to get
ECC and this would destroy and cost advantage over getting another board.
Strangely the Asus P8B-WS does support the G2000 processors, but this isn't
Micro ATX
Even more strangely the Asus P8B-M does support a G2020T, but not a G2020 - and of course a type T processor is not easily available.
What boards are UK builders using? Shall I through caution to the wind and buy
a P8B-M and see if it runs with a G2020, or G2030?
Thanks
Theo