Cheapest motherboard

[coconha]

Hi there,

New to freenas and would like to build a freenas box. If there is such a thing, does anyone know what is the cheapest motherboard that will allow a hassle free install?

I care:
- About the data

I do not care:
- About speed
- About mobo durability
- About form factor
- About data encryption
- About hot swapping discs

 

[Jacopx]

You should use some part from an old PC with new drive, like WD RED! ;)


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[styno]

Something like a Dell PowerEdge T20 is dirt cheap and a good base to start from, at least you don't have to screw your components onto a piece of wood
Are you looking for new, used, refurbished components? Disks? Capacity? ...

 

[Mr_N]

You need something that reliably uses ECC i doubt any options would be called cheap...

 

[jgreco]

You need something that reliably uses ECC i doubt any options would be called cheap...

Well if by "cheap" you mean something that's like $40 mainboard and $35 APU, no, you won't find that.

 

[danb35]

You need something that reliably uses ECC i doubt any options would be called cheap...

I guess that depends on how you define "cheap." The Dell PowerEdge T20 mentioned above starts at under US$200 for a complete (though diskless) system with 4 GB of RAM. Add an 8 GB stick and drives as desired, and you're good to go. To me, $250 + disks for a working server counts as cheap.

 

[ttabbal]

Not quite as cheap as the T20, but I picked up one of these combos..

http://www.natex.us/mobile/Product.aspx?ProductCode=Intel-S5520HC-48GB

Dual Xeons, 48G ECC. Drop it in a case, add up to 6 drives and a USB stick. Or screw it to a 2x4 I guess, whatever works for you.

It's a bit overkill for just a filer, but I always end up adding things to the mix with jails/vms.

 

[ALFA]

You alway can go to Ebay and search for some juicy ECC stuff, the x9 supermicro serie its a good start, pick one of many flavors and stick with it for your testing.

 

[jgreco]

Plus the X9 stuff is very similar to the X10 and X11 stuff from a performance point of view, there haven't been major technological leaps since Sandy except for some bumps in memory speed, USB, and of course with Skylake the 64GB thing.