Hello again World,
I have spent a couple weeks trying to research and choose a quality server motherboard that supports ECC memory and costs somewhere between $150-175 USD. It must be for an LGA1150 socket.
This has been substantially more difficult than I thought it would, seeing as how every time I think I have found a good candidate, I stumble upon a disturbing amount of poor reviews for said board. I'm referring to YOU Supermicro..
I have waiting, 16GB of ECC ram, and will be supporting 4-6 users daily who perform light tasks simutaneously. I will run Windows Server 2008 R2 and will be hosting an Active Directory, File, Printer, DNS, DHCP, Backup, and Media server on this one machine. I will likely host my small Website off this server as well, which is strictly a Resume/About me page for new contacts of mine. I have (in RAID5) qty:5 of 2Tb WD NAS HDDs with my OS on a 240Gb SSD. This is more than enough storage trust me. I am really trying NOT to have to buy an LSI RAID card such as the 9260 because I dont want to fork out another $275-300 right now. I am debating on whether or not I will need to purchase a Xeon like the 1240v3 cpu or if I can keep my older i7-3770. I also have a Pentium G3258 server 2008 R2 that I could dedicate to managing my Print and Backup server roles(just a thought, in case i can get away with keeping my 3770).
Please, if you have any experience with non-enterprise requirement Servers, please enlighten me as to a couple options for a RELIABLE quality motherboard that accepts ECC memory.
I have spent a couple weeks trying to research and choose a quality server motherboard that supports ECC memory and costs somewhere between $150-175 USD. It must be for an LGA1150 socket.
This has been substantially more difficult than I thought it would, seeing as how every time I think I have found a good candidate, I stumble upon a disturbing amount of poor reviews for said board. I'm referring to YOU Supermicro..
I have waiting, 16GB of ECC ram, and will be supporting 4-6 users daily who perform light tasks simutaneously. I will run Windows Server 2008 R2 and will be hosting an Active Directory, File, Printer, DNS, DHCP, Backup, and Media server on this one machine. I will likely host my small Website off this server as well, which is strictly a Resume/About me page for new contacts of mine. I have (in RAID5) qty:5 of 2Tb WD NAS HDDs with my OS on a 240Gb SSD. This is more than enough storage trust me. I am really trying NOT to have to buy an LSI RAID card such as the 9260 because I dont want to fork out another $275-300 right now. I am debating on whether or not I will need to purchase a Xeon like the 1240v3 cpu or if I can keep my older i7-3770. I also have a Pentium G3258 server 2008 R2 that I could dedicate to managing my Print and Backup server roles(just a thought, in case i can get away with keeping my 3770).
Please, if you have any experience with non-enterprise requirement Servers, please enlighten me as to a couple options for a RELIABLE quality motherboard that accepts ECC memory.