Hello! I have an AsRock z170 pro 4s motherboard and want to build a RAID 1 NAS for my home. I’ll be using TrueNAS as the system source. Has anyone built with this motherboard? Any recommendations?
I only saw one other post when I did a forum search for that motherboard. What kind of recommendations are you looking for or what questions do you have?
Documentation has a Hardware Guide you can go through. Docs & AI Search link at top right of forum.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything specifically about this motherboard.
I personally have had the no-s version, but never used It for truenas. Despite Is an entry level oc motherboard It has
- an integrated Intel nic
- 6 sata + 2 sata express
- many pciex slot where put NVME adapters or other expansion card
that can be good for your purpose.
The major const Is that It not supports ECC, like most consumer board.
Those boards can also be easily modded to supports 128gb RAM (instead of 64) and 8-9 gen CPUs
Will it be a big problem for me that it doesn’t support ECC?
Recently we’ve had a spike of users with ram related faults, easily over a dozen cases in the last few weeks. @winnielinnie is our resident memtest sales associate & has earned enough in commissions to buy a single stick of ddr5 ram 8gb (4800mhz cl42; so well over $10,000 in this ai-centric market) with his referrals.
…Jokes aside, yeah ECC ram is helpful, but personal risk tolerance, budget, availability, etc. come into account & ECC isn’t some magical product that can’t also fail, but it will generate alerts & correct as many errors as it can while it does so. But yeah, there has been a large spike in failures - that part sadly wasn’t a joke.
There is an endless debate between TrueNAS users on if ecc is/isn’t mandatory. TrueNAS (like any other OS) will work without ECC, but the question is of what level of trust you’d put into the hardware.
Either way, stress tests, memtests, badblocks, etc prior to deployment.
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