Hello Truena’s fans!
I am looking for a cheap hardward with the motherboard AsRock Z790 Riptide WiFi with 6 x M2 slots. The goal would be 4 x 4TB M2 NVME disks and with a 10Gb network card. The CPU would not have to be the fastest for a NAS with SMB share and iSCSi VMware share.
The costs for the hardware should of course also be very low.
The system should be as quiet as possible and consume as little power as possible. What do you think?
Many thanks!
Greetings Novell1
You maybe better served by the AsROCK Rack family of motherboards and an AMD processor. This will give a extended number of lanes to support more then 4 nmve and a 10GB NIC board.
FWIW: This is gaming board best suited for that purpose.
Hi Mike03, thanks! This motherboard has enough space for 4 NVME M.2 disks, and the X16 slot would then be for the 10Gb network card. I will not install a graphics card, as this comes directly from the CPU i3. What speaks against it? Expansion is no longer necessary, shouldn’t that be enough for TrueNAS?
Best regards Novell1
Nothing wrong with function. Disable subsystems in bios you don’t use.
It is not a server-grade platform, and saving on cost would be better achieved by going for a second-hand server board.
4 x 4TB M2 NVME
10Gb network
CPU would not have to be the fastest
iSCSi VMware share [i.e. lots of RAM]
consume as little power as possible
You’ve literally described a system with a X10SDV(-nC)-TLN2F board here!
Thanks to cheap DDR4-2400 RDIMM, you’ll get 128 GB RAM for iSCSI at a lower system cost than 32 GB with a DDR5 Z790 gaming board, the NVMe drives will hang directly on the CPU rather than on the Z790 chipset (and through the DMI link) and you’ll reduce the system from full ATX to a puny mini-ITX. What’s not to like?
Hallo Etorix, thanks! This Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F motherboard would be OK, but how do I get the 4 NVME disks into a raidz1? Do I have to use an NVME slot card with 4 NVME with bifurcation? But the X16 PCIe slot can only handle 2 x 8, so only 2 NVMEs would be detected? Or am I completely wrong?
Which cheap motherboard (amd/Intel) with 10Gb network connection and 4 NVME’s can do this? Thanks for your help!
Regards Novell1
All v.2 X10SDV boards (all but the D-1520 and D-1540 models) handle x4x4x4x4 bifurcation, so a cheap passive riser card will do.
