Which micro ATX motherboard for low power NAS (need RAID)

TomeEUS · May 28, 2014

Hi, I purchased the HFX fanless case that supports 5x SATA drives. I seem not to be able to find microATX board that would support:

5x - 6x SATA III
1GB LAN

Bonus: Ideally low power consumption

Any suggestions please?

Ahmadjon · May 28, 2014

Here you go

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Motherboard: Asus H87M-E Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($93.79 @ Amazon)
Total: $93.79
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-28 13:20 EDT-0400)

boosted1g · May 28, 2014

Do you have the cpu yet as that restricts down board options?
There are some intel boards that have 8+ sata ports
which raid (0,1,5,6,10, etc) and on how many drives?

TomeEUS · May 28, 2014

No CPU yet - will buy it based on the MB, together with RAM.

At least RAID 5 and 0

5x drives as it is the maximum this case supports.

Thank you!

Calvin7 · May 28, 2014

I think that case is for •Mini ITX Form Factor not Micro-ATX Form Factor motherboards.
Asus H97I-PLUS
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H97IPLUS/

boosted1g · May 28, 2014

Most 6 port boards have 4 ports availible to raid controller and then 2 additional ones on a different controller.

If you only need to put 4 drives in raid 5 then there is a large amount of options for you.

The only matx board i found with 6 ports on the same controller is the asus maximus http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VI_GENE/specifications/

Now as Calvin pointed out, your case is for an mITX, I serriously doubt I can find a mITX board with 8 sata ports.

boosted1g · May 28, 2014

I can find a limited number of ITX mobos with 6 ports (4 ports capaible of raid 5), but none with 8, most only have 4.

Ahmadjon · May 28, 2014

TomeEUS :

Here is mini-ITX motherboard with 6 SATA-6Gbp/s ports.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Motherboard: Asus H87I-PLUS Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($104.49 @ Amazon)
Total: $104.49
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-28 20:33 EDT-0400)

It's capable with RAID. 0, 1, 5, 10.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H87IPLUS/specifications/

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