Is my motherboard good enough for a home server?

gerr

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I am building a home server to run Plex, an NVR of some sort, run Handbrake for recoding jobs, and be a central NAS. It will have a Xeon E3-1231v3 CPU and 32GB of DDR3-1600 non-ECC memory. The motherboard I currently have is the MSI Z97 PC Mate, which is a very basic low level consumer motherboard. Is that good enough or should I get something better like...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157409
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http://www.amazon.com/P9D-server-grade-Workstation-Motherboard-entry-level/dp/B00CY9PNC0

Both of those motherboards are based on the Intel C226 chipset which can accept ECC memory if I decide to upgrade to that at a later date. They are also built to support server/workstation work loads. Just not sure I "need" to upgrade. Thoughts?
 

Morad Tamer

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For a home server keep your MSI Z97 motherboard it is still good enough to keep this load especially for a home server

but the real question iS how many hard drives the motherboard can support
supposed that you know that FreeNAS posted on their webpage "you need 1 GB of ram/1 TB of storage"
so i conclude that there are going to be 32 TBs of storage in this NAS
right ??????????