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That leaves me with 2 PCIE slots, 1 for an H310 HBA card which will give me an additional 8x sata when needed and 1 for 10GB NIC if needed in the future. But if you are building a NAS at your home, it is highly important to check that you have the right motherboard for it too. Apart from the CPU socket, the chipset used by your motherboard for NAS can also affect its performance as well as compatibility.

But after looking at your link I understand that it is not at all the same as the normal ECC memory. In fact, it was such an excellent value that I nearly decided to skip this year’s EconoNAS altogether.Even though both NAS and servers have similar functionality to each other while having large amounts of storage, a NAS has very limited features. Taking a look at the other end of the spectrum, the Gigabyte X570 UD can be a great pick if you are building a high-end NAS. Not only do you get a total of 5 PCIe expansion slots thanks to its ATX form factor, but this motherboard also supports a PCIe 4.

If there’s room in your budget, then the power supply is a component that I would certainly recommend upgrading in this build. which would allow me to use 1 as a sata expander and still have 2 as my main mirrored cache pool (that has me thinking now.Rather than do that, I figured that I would make the Topton N5105 NAS Motherboard the centerpiece of this year’s EconoNAS, too. clients I was routinely seeing anywhere between 500 and 700 Mbps whereas hap ac2 … more like 200-320 with that same client. Having done his degree in Computer Systems, he pursues his passion of computer hardware through writing detailed blogs and articles to demystify all the tech related jargon for a layman. It may look overwhelming to newbies at first, but if you work with it for a while you will find that it is user-friendly and it is also very well documented. ports, 1 x Ethernet, 1 x HDMI, audio ports, and some more ports on the back for its connectivity options.