Well, my previous Gigabyte mobo did not work out since it requires two 8-pin 12v AUX power and one 6-pin 12v AUX power, and the PDB in my chassis only has one 8-pin and one (4+4)-pin.
Looking for recs on a new mobo/CPU combo, goal would be to use what I already have if possible and use less power at idle than my Dell R430 (~84-94W). This will be a simple file server, likely running OpenMediaVault or just some kind of base Linux distro + Cockpit and using md for software RAID, if any RAID at all.
I have:
Looking for recs on a new mobo/CPU combo, goal would be to use what I already have if possible and use less power at idle than my Dell R430 (~84-94W). This will be a simple file server, likely running OpenMediaVault or just some kind of base Linux distro + Cockpit and using md for software RAID, if any RAID at all.
I have:
- Supermicro SC826B/rev 1.2 with the BPN-SAS3-826EL1 expander backplane and rear 2.5" optional bays, 920W SQ PSUs, and the -8824 PDB.
- various DDR4 ECC RDIMMs that I would like to reuse, if possible.
- 2 SATA SSDs (in rear bays already), 2 SATA HDDs
- 10GBase-T x2, preferably built in to the motherboard as I understand it uses less power than a PCI card would (correct me if I'm wrong)
- ability to use DDR4 RDIMMs I already have
- ability to use backplane I already have, whether with a built in controller or via 9300-8i PCI card
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