None of the ones available for public consumption are good for anything but regurgitating stuff you can’t trust. I doubt the private ones are much better.
In the future? We’ll see I guess.
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That sets your requirements to a micro-ATX board (or larger) with 4+ SATA ports (preferable 6-8, just in case…) and preferably two x8 PCIe slots. Last generation not required.
AsRock Rack E3C246D4U2-2T?
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I orderd this one, as my cpu is AMD.
GIGABYTE MC12-LE0
Considering it has IPMI, that is an awesome price. Reminds me of the $50 mobo everyone used to recommend.
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Good if you still found one for a reasonable price (it was a 50 € bargain last year, but prices went up when stock finally ran low). 
6 SATA. Get a x8x4x4 adapter to run a low profile dGPU and a pair of M.2 SSDs in the x16 slot, as the single on-board M.2 slot is x1 and strictly meant for the boot device.
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It cost 250€… But I can install a HBA, if I am running out of SATA ports.
I will keep that in my mind. My sparkle arc a310 eco only uses x8.
Still a fair price for a genuine server board, the modern likes of which are 400-500 €.
But a that price level an E3C246D4U2-2T gets you 2 more SATA ports, 2 x4 M.2 slots on-board, x16/x8 + x0/x8 slots and 10GBase-T.
With a single x16 slot and a x8 dGPU, you’ll need a x8x8 riser and a bit of creativity with extension cables—and move your app pool to SATA SSDs.
So plan ahead to avoid headaches!
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So I need a x8 for my future HBA. Gotcha.
This is already done. Mirror incoming as soon as the second SDD arrives.
Sounds good.
Okay, I’ll then switch to that one. It’s cheaper on eBay.
But these Xeons are still very pricey… even in used state.
Have all supported cpus on the ASRock support list full ECC support?
C246 supports ECC with Xeon E-2100/2200 and Core i3-8100/9100 CPUs (not i5 and higher). The only difference is that i3 support only up to 64 GB RAM while Xeon E go up to 128 GB (and can have more cores).
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ASRock Rack E3C246D4U2-2T and Intel Xeon E-2236 ordered. GIGABYTE MC12-LE0 is canceled.
That motherboard supports xeons with integrated graphics, and the UHD Graphics P630 is capable of both transcoding and tonemapping in jellyfin, hence no need for that arc a310 unless you need to encode to hevc or av1.
All you need to do is enable multi monitor in bios and the P630 is available for passthrough to jellyfin.
You could swap that 2236 for a 2226G, and have 8 more pcie lanes free for other things, just a thought.
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I feel better with HEVC and AV1 support.
I cannot see any differences.
I’m sorry! It took me a while to understand it. I could omit the dGPU and thus save x8.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/191038/intel-xeon-e2226g-processor-12m-cache-3-40-ghz/specifications.html
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/191040/intel-xeon-e2236-processor-12m-cache-3-40-ghz/specifications.html
But E-2226G is a six core CPU without HT.
Yeah, i was referring to the lanes the dgpu would free up, sorry, I could have worded that better.
Yes, you are indeed correct, and the E-2246G would be the nearest match. I looked too quick only judging by core count and tdp on intel ark.
I recently swapped out the hardware in my truenas box, going from the typical “ex-gaming pc to nas build” with an 11600k with uhd graphics 750 to a supermicro x11spi-tf and a xeon 6244 mostly for the option of going with lots and lots of cheap second hand ecc server ram and onboard 10GbE , and got an arc a310 for jellyfin, and it performs amazingly, but honestly the igpu wasn’t that far behind. Intel igpus are very performant in h.264 encoding, but fall flat on their face in hevc encoding.
Since you’ve made it clear that you’d rather use the a310, then that’s that, you’re set in regards to cpu.
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