Hello there, i’m looking to upgrade my 10 years old NAS/server. I already have the HDD and the case. But i have difficulties to chose motherboard, PSU, CPU & RAM.
So far i’m looking for :
AMD CPU, +12 threads
Because it's already a RAID6 I'm looking for a bunch of SATA ports, maybe a LSI ? Which one ? And 2 NVME slots for the Motherboard.
More than 16GB of ram, IF possible ECC
All of this available in western Europe
I’m aiming for a budget between 600€ and 900€ for those 4 components.
(I do know why i'm aiming at this kind of hardware. But I have stopped being hardware enthusiast like 9 years ago and I really need some help for this)
Have a nice day and a nice weekend :)
(If it's the wrong place to ask for hardware advises I'm sorry)
The only AM4 and AM5 motherboards I'm aware of that officially claim to fully support ECC are made by Asrock as their server sub-brand Asrock Rack. They are pricey AF - 500-600 euro for the motherboard alone. As a bonus you get 2x10Gb ethernet + separate ethernet port for remote management, including bios access and a bunch of other goodies.
I used one of those (Asrock Rack X570D4I-2T) for my NAS - it comes with 2 oculink ports, each of which provides 4x SATA.
Unofficially ECC works on many (possibly all) B an X chipset series motherboards as long as you are not using G-series CPU. If you google around you'll find a bunch of unofficial confirmations from users of specific motherboards that it does work.
E.g. Asus PRIME B650M-R + Ryzen 7600 (non-x) is a good start and will cost you 250-300 euro total. LSI 9300 16I will add 16 SATA ports for another 50-60 euro. 200-250 euro for a 2x16GB ecc kit.
Genuine question, why "non-x" (4th paragraph) CPU ? Is there incompatibility issue with EEC or it's just because they are kinda high-end CPU ?
Do you have good brand for RAM in mind ?
I usually go with Crucial for desktop RAM, but that's not a strong preference, but rather good price to performance ratio for the faster memory kits they have. Might not translate to ECC memory.
Thank you for your detailed answers !