AsRock Rack EP2C602-4L/D16

[pjuser115]

So deal of the day at Newegg is $120 off the AsRock Rack EP2C602-4L/D16, that puts it at $280.00.

I can't find much on the forums about this specific board. I am looking to see what reactions I can get in the next 5 hours.

• Dual Socket R (LGA 2011), supports Intel Xeon E5-1600 / 2600 / 4600 & v2 series
• Supports Quad Channel DDR3 1866 memory, 16 x DIMM slots, Max. 512GB
• 4 x PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 x PCIe 3.0 x4, 1 x PCI
• 8 x SATA2 (3.0 Gb/s) by Intel C602, Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
• 2 x SATA3 (6.0 Gb/s) by Intel C602, Supports RAID 0, 1
• 4 x Intel 82574L LAN, Support PCIE Quad Gigabit LAN

Probably get 2x Refurbished: Intel Xeon E5-2609 V2 SR1AX 4-Core 2.5GHz 10MB LGA 2011 Processor ($26each) for $52 total.


Any thoughts? looks like a pretty decent board for a first time NAS build.

 

[Chris Moore]

Any thoughts? looks like a pretty decent board for a first time NAS build.

Is there a reason you want a dual processor system?

 

[Chris Moore]

This is the model board I use and one processor is plenty:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro...GA2011-System-Board-BIOS-Updated/401678513337

 

[Chris Moore]

Any thoughts? looks like a pretty decent board for a first time NAS build.

You might want to take a look at the suggestions I made in this post to see where I am going with that:
https://forums.freenas.org/threads/freenas-home-build.72885/post-504949