DKman
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Hello everyone,
I plan to build a not so expensive home NAS with 2 drives in RAID1 to store reliably my personal data. I've read most of the pinned topics to understand what to do and I got the importance of ECC ram + nice mobo + quality PSU.
I didn't bother digging more into AMD based solutions, couldn't find low TDP + ECC ram support. Or I missed something ... :/
I find buying a Intel Atom based boards in Europe expensive, a bit limited in performance, and not really up to date (last Atoms out in 2013). Ok the overall TDP is amazingly low but there is only 2/3 options :
- ASRock C2550D4I > 290€ (I don't trust ASRock)
- Supermicro A1SRi-2358F > 230€ (not in stock anywhere)
- Supermicro A1SRi-2558F > 272€
Good alternative ==> Intel LGA1151 CPU + Intel C23x chipset mobo + ECC ram ?
From what I found, only mobos with Intel C232 or C236 chipsets fully support ECC with LGA1151 CPUs. I listed :
-GA-X150M-PRO ECC > 106€ ==> Nice price but looks like a really bad choice, bad ECC ram compatibility & no BIOS update/new rev since release
- MSI C236M Workstation > 133€==> Looks like a good board ! I've seen no reviews or not much info on FreeNAS forums, too bad there is no ITX version.
- Asus P10S, SuperMicro X11, or ASRock C236 are too expensive > 200++€
On the other hand it seems LGA1151 offers 35W low TDP 14nm with full features CPUs (AES, VTx, etc.) + integrated HD Graphics 510/530 (noice DVI+HDMi outputs onboard) :
- Intel Pentium G3900T > 43€
- Intel Pentium G4400T > 65€
- Intel Pentium G4500T > 77€
Intel Xeon processors seem too expensive and overkill for my needs. Intel Xeon E3-1220v5 starting at 200€.
So the build I wanna go with might be the cheapest low TDP CPU + ECC mobo around :
MSI C236M + Intel Pentium G4xxxT ==> 176-210€
Pros :
- Nice price
- LGA1151
- Low TDP CPU+GPU @35W (14nm yay \o/)
- ECC+DDR4 (64GB max)
- PCIe 3.0 2*x16 + 2*x1
- USB 3.1
- 6*SATA3 + 1*eSATA3
- DVI+HDMi
==> Overall : ready for future upgrades (RAM or CPU) or other usages (HTPC / server / workstation)
Cons :
- Single Gigabit LAN :(
What do you guys think about this ? Got HGST drives waiting :D
Side question : using a cheap SSD as boot device is ok ? Buying an Innodisk SATADOM seems complicated.
- Transcend half slim SSD 32GB (TS32GHSD370) > 35€ (really compact)
- PNY SSD CS1311 Series 120Go > 37€
I plan to build a not so expensive home NAS with 2 drives in RAID1 to store reliably my personal data. I've read most of the pinned topics to understand what to do and I got the importance of ECC ram + nice mobo + quality PSU.
I didn't bother digging more into AMD based solutions, couldn't find low TDP + ECC ram support. Or I missed something ... :/
I find buying a Intel Atom based boards in Europe expensive, a bit limited in performance, and not really up to date (last Atoms out in 2013). Ok the overall TDP is amazingly low but there is only 2/3 options :
- ASRock C2550D4I > 290€ (I don't trust ASRock)
- Supermicro A1SRi-2358F > 230€ (not in stock anywhere)
- Supermicro A1SRi-2558F > 272€
Good alternative ==> Intel LGA1151 CPU + Intel C23x chipset mobo + ECC ram ?
From what I found, only mobos with Intel C232 or C236 chipsets fully support ECC with LGA1151 CPUs. I listed :
-
- MSI C236M Workstation > 133€==> Looks like a good board ! I've seen no reviews or not much info on FreeNAS forums, too bad there is no ITX version.
- Asus P10S, SuperMicro X11, or ASRock C236 are too expensive > 200++€
On the other hand it seems LGA1151 offers 35W low TDP 14nm with full features CPUs (AES, VTx, etc.) + integrated HD Graphics 510/530 (noice DVI+HDMi outputs onboard) :
- Intel Pentium G3900T > 43€
- Intel Pentium G4400T > 65€
- Intel Pentium G4500T > 77€
Intel Xeon processors seem too expensive and overkill for my needs. Intel Xeon E3-1220v5 starting at 200€.
So the build I wanna go with might be the cheapest low TDP CPU + ECC mobo around :
MSI C236M + Intel Pentium G4xxxT ==> 176-210€
Pros :
- Nice price
- LGA1151
- Low TDP CPU+GPU @35W (14nm yay \o/)
- ECC+DDR4 (64GB max)
- PCIe 3.0 2*x16 + 2*x1
- USB 3.1
- 6*SATA3 + 1*eSATA3
- DVI+HDMi
==> Overall : ready for future upgrades (RAM or CPU) or other usages (HTPC / server / workstation)
Cons :
- Single Gigabit LAN :(
What do you guys think about this ? Got HGST drives waiting :D
Side question : using a cheap SSD as boot device is ok ? Buying an Innodisk SATADOM seems complicated.
- Transcend half slim SSD 32GB (TS32GHSD370) > 35€ (really compact)
- PNY SSD CS1311 Series 120Go > 37€