Fractal Define R5 Motherboard Options

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Ericloewe

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Sure. It's a bit slower (3-5% IPC, minus 100MHz clock), but otherwise fine.
 

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Broadwell supposed to have 5% better IPC
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10158/the-intel-xeon-e5-v4-review/3

Anyway, it's all marginal.

Thanks.

Man I'm struggling with all the options in front of me.

I've been staring at motherboards and cpus for days... and the prices lol can't make up my mind. I don't want to over do it for a home/lab nas. I'm trying to be reasonable and keep power and noise in mind as well. The E5 cpus might be overkill for me.

The define r5 looks like it can be made to hold like 16 drives with addon cages. Would I be better off with an hba as opposed to onboard sata? If so, what is a good choice?
 

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If you want that many drives, you should go with one of the 24 bay rack mount cases with hot-swap drive bays.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/162597691498
You would definitely be better off with a SAS HBA or even two. I run a pair of Dell h310 controllers that have been flashed with the LSI IT mode firmware. They work great for the 12 drives I have now and I will be adding a third of the same card when I go to 24 drives in my new 24 bay chassis. I already have all the parts except I need 5 more hard drives.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-H310-6...-IT-Mode-for-ZFS-FreeNAS-unRAID-/162643830342
 
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