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Oh, the motherboard I selected doesn't support ECC... Need something else. Asus WS C246M PRO it'll be!

So far haven't seen any at a decent price. Also, your Xeon E3-1270v5 has a TDP of 80W...

Apparently the target release date is Feb '22. Not that far away. Indeed I could even get an i3 9100T for roughly the same price. Would gain 35W TDP.

I plan to run TrueNAS Scale, with at least Plex/Jellyfin, maybe a few other docker containers (Pi-hole, ...). Why that motherboard? The cheapest I found with ECC support, 6x SATA, compatible with the CPU and sourceable in CH.

I don't find it price competitive... With everything above it comes more or less to the price of the QNAP without drives.

My part list currently looks like this: - Intel i3-9100 (iGPU, supports ECC RAM) - 2x 16GB KSM26eS8/16Me (un-buffered un-registred ECC) - Fujitsu D3642-B (Q370 chipset) - be quiet! BN280 PSU (450W) - be quiet! BN030 CPU cooler - 4x Seagate Exos X16 ST16000NM001G - 1x Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA...

Hi, I'm looking for the optimal platform for building a NAS. My criteria: - Good efficiency - ECC RAM - 6 HDDs - iGPU for transcoding What should I target? An old Intel i3 < 10th GEN, a Xeon E-2200G or E-2300G, something else? Your advice would be much appreciated.

Other option would be to get one of the last available motherboards with C246 chipset, but compatible with the older Intel Xeon E-2200... I don't really care if it gets obsolete soon. Just for home usage I probably won't see much difference anyway. What would you recommend for a healthy base?

At least in Europe for consumers I've not seen them anywhere yet (C252/C256 chipsets).

@BlueFox would you have a BOM to propose? Xeon E-2200/E-2300 are not that cheap and for the latter there is currently no motherboard yet for sale...