I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.
So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.
I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.
Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.
If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.
The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.
Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler
I am looking at a minimum of 16 GB, memory is fairly cheap these days.
What about slow boot times of super micro, I have heard that they take a long time to boot through the bios.
Why would boot times matter?
Truenas appears to recommend ecc. That may dictate what board to buy.
Zfs loves memory, vm loves memory.
If you have the funds for it I would get a minimum of 32 GB.