JarrodBradford
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- Feb 15, 2016
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Hi everyone.
So I'm getting ready to build a home NAS system and have my eye on the ASRock Rack E3C236D2I Mini ITX system board. I'm going to be using all six of the onboard SATA ports for data drives and will ideally be installing from a USB stick onto the internal USB port on the system board. Everything I've been reading tells me that's going to a problem without EHCI support from the chipset and no support for xHCI from FreeNAS yet. Best I can tell, my only option is going to be to use a PCIe USB 2.0 card for now until we get xHCI support. Problem is, I'm having a heck of a time finding a USB 2.0 card that is definitely bootable. I've reached out to ASRock support and they're looking into to it for me as well but I figured I'd hit you guys up too.
Anybody have a suggestion?
Also, since everyone seems to like posting what they're running, here's what's on my shopping list (if I can determine it'll work!)
Case: Fractal Design Node 304
Motherboard: ASRock Rack E3C236D2I
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 (Need lots of horse power for Plex transcoding)
RAM: 2x 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM - (Haven't decided on make/model yet)
HDD: 6x 4TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 in RAIDZ3
Thanks in advance for any feedback! Also, I'm a FreeNAS noob and have been lurking the forum long enough to know that there are people trying to get Skylake to play nice with mixed success. Trying to make sure I'm not another statistic!
Jarrod
So I'm getting ready to build a home NAS system and have my eye on the ASRock Rack E3C236D2I Mini ITX system board. I'm going to be using all six of the onboard SATA ports for data drives and will ideally be installing from a USB stick onto the internal USB port on the system board. Everything I've been reading tells me that's going to a problem without EHCI support from the chipset and no support for xHCI from FreeNAS yet. Best I can tell, my only option is going to be to use a PCIe USB 2.0 card for now until we get xHCI support. Problem is, I'm having a heck of a time finding a USB 2.0 card that is definitely bootable. I've reached out to ASRock support and they're looking into to it for me as well but I figured I'd hit you guys up too.
Anybody have a suggestion?
Also, since everyone seems to like posting what they're running, here's what's on my shopping list (if I can determine it'll work!)
Case: Fractal Design Node 304
Motherboard: ASRock Rack E3C236D2I
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 (Need lots of horse power for Plex transcoding)
RAM: 2x 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM - (Haven't decided on make/model yet)
HDD: 6x 4TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 in RAIDZ3
Thanks in advance for any feedback! Also, I'm a FreeNAS noob and have been lurking the forum long enough to know that there are people trying to get Skylake to play nice with mixed success. Trying to make sure I'm not another statistic!
Jarrod