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Hello all,
I'm looking up parts incase my server is dying (it's very unfortunately possible, I'll know end of day)
I've done some googling and AsRock has some Intel C236 chipsets which look quite nice, supporting Xeon / ECC
There does appear to be at least one confusing issue though, see this review.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/SingleProductReview.aspx?ReviewID=4603674
Does anyone know exactly what that means? Can I not boot from USB sticks as I do now and run FreeNAS from a stick? (I realise some people said it's not recommended, it's why I ended up going for 2 sticks, - 6 or 7 months on, at least and it's been dandy for me, to be honest)
As for the technical details, for others considering a new FreeNAS build, as follows.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=Intel_C236_asrock-_-13-599-009-_-Product
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813599005
(Difference appears to be IPMI support, more NICs, less SATA and classed as a server vs workstation)
Both under $250 US
Here's a supported CPU list.
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C236 WSI#CPU
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C236D2I#CPU
(appears one of the boards requires the Intel CPUs with built in graphics)
This appears to be your list of CPU's.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...l+E3+v5+xeon&N=100008494 601116092&isNodeId=1
Finally I did a lot of research for memory, here's a list of modules.
MTA9ASF1G72AZ 8GB
MTA18ASF2G72AZ-2G3 16GB
MTA18ASF2G72AZ-2G1A1 (according to intel datasheet)
TS1GLH72V1H 8GB
TS2GLH72V1B 16GB
KVR21E15D8/8 8GB
KVR21S15D8/16 16GB
(More here: )
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww...ry/ddr4-2133-ecc-udimm-validation-results.pdf
I hope this information helps others considering building their own machine. This is tailored to miniITX, since that is what I'd personally be going for. Besides rarity of unbuffered ECC DDR4 unfortunately, it's otherwise mostly quite cheap, modern hardware. Which I could only assume would be supported by FreeBSD 10/11 and onwards, presumably.
I'm looking up parts incase my server is dying (it's very unfortunately possible, I'll know end of day)
I've done some googling and AsRock has some Intel C236 chipsets which look quite nice, supporting Xeon / ECC
There does appear to be at least one confusing issue though, see this review.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/SingleProductReview.aspx?ReviewID=4603674
I'm using this board with a Xeon E3-1245v5 and 32 GB of ECC RAM for a home NAS/media server machine with FreeNAS. Note that it does not support the more common registered ECC DIMMs; NewEgg did not offer DDR4 unbuffered ECC DIMMs in 16 GB density at the time I purchased, so I had to do a little extra searching to complete the build. If you're also contemplating a FreeNAS 9 setup, beware that installation requires a little extra work since the Skylake platform no longer supports EHCI mode for USB.
Does anyone know exactly what that means? Can I not boot from USB sticks as I do now and run FreeNAS from a stick? (I realise some people said it's not recommended, it's why I ended up going for 2 sticks, - 6 or 7 months on, at least and it's been dandy for me, to be honest)
As for the technical details, for others considering a new FreeNAS build, as follows.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=Intel_C236_asrock-_-13-599-009-_-Product
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813599005
(Difference appears to be IPMI support, more NICs, less SATA and classed as a server vs workstation)
Both under $250 US
Here's a supported CPU list.
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C236 WSI#CPU
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C236D2I#CPU
(appears one of the boards requires the Intel CPUs with built in graphics)
This appears to be your list of CPU's.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...l+E3+v5+xeon&N=100008494 601116092&isNodeId=1
Finally I did a lot of research for memory, here's a list of modules.
MTA9ASF1G72AZ 8GB
MTA18ASF2G72AZ-2G3 16GB
MTA18ASF2G72AZ-2G1A1 (according to intel datasheet)
TS1GLH72V1H 8GB
TS2GLH72V1B 16GB
KVR21E15D8/8 8GB
KVR21S15D8/16 16GB
(More here: )
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww...ry/ddr4-2133-ecc-udimm-validation-results.pdf
I hope this information helps others considering building their own machine. This is tailored to miniITX, since that is what I'd personally be going for. Besides rarity of unbuffered ECC DDR4 unfortunately, it's otherwise mostly quite cheap, modern hardware. Which I could only assume would be supported by FreeBSD 10/11 and onwards, presumably.