I am looking into building a new NAS to replace my aging current one. I want to go self-built with focus on low power consumption and silence. It will run FreeBSD on bare-metal. Data disks are planned to be SSD with ZFS.

With this, I am looking for a mainboard with these properties:

  • Onboard low power CPU with passive cooler (no fan)
  • Min 4 SATA ports for the data SSDs
  • Min 1 M.2 slot for the IS
  • IPMI, this will be headless, even for initial config

Any ideas? Thanks very much!

  • @variants_of_concern
    1•1 year ago

    I got a SUPERMICRO MBD-M11SDV-8CT-LN4F-O Mini ITX to run my unRAID server for a while, it was pretty nice in a node 304 case, eventually I needed more space when I started hosting Plex and needed video transcoding. I didn’t have my friend 3d print me a fan holder that sat over the heatsink because it got pretty toasty