NAS-Upgrade: Motherboard/CPU-Suggestions for 8 x SATA, M2-System-Disk, ECC, iGPU passthrough, IPMI

Dear all,

I`m looking to upgrade my NAS.

Unfortunately I have a hard time choosing a new Motherboard/CPU-Combo because everytime I think I got something I stumble about other details which does not fit.

Requirements / Wish-List:

Form Factor: Mini-ITX, Micro-ATX

System-Drive: at least 1 x M2-SSD/NVME for the System

Storage-Drives: at least 8 x SATA-HDD-possibilities

RAM: ECC-RAM possible

Video-Decoding-/Encoding: iGPU passthrough for Plex or Jellyfin

IPMI: built-in prefered or through PiKVM (Geekworm X650)

Best regards,

MacGyver

In my research I found this Blog Post:

ASRock Rack E3C246D4U - The Perfect Media Server Motherboard?

The board only arrived today but I've gotten it working in a couple of hours exactly the way I wanted. It really is about as close to perfect as we're going to…

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This sounds like a good choice : ASRock Rack E3C246D4U

Unfortunately the ASRock Rack E3C246D4U seems to be not really available (anymore) for a decent price.

Also personal financials are somewhat limited at the moment; so I decided to do some smaller upgrades to my exsisting build in the meantime:

- Upgraded CPU: From Intel i3-4160 to Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3