Motherboard suggestions needed for NAS (home server)

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likelinus

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I’m re-building my NAS that backs up RAW media, video projects and other supported media. I’ve got a 5800x or 5950X that I can use for the CPU

Requirements:
• Minimum of 2 m.2 NVME spots (3-4 would be ideal, but not a deal breaker due to PCIe need).
• (1) PCIe 4.0×8 slot (16x slot that converts the 2nd 16x slot to split into two 4.0 8x) - Asus GTX 1080 video card I have left over
• (1) PCIe 4.0×8 slot - LSI 9300-16i 12Gb/s SAS/SATA HBA IT Mode. (20 HDD w/ SATA Connections included)
• (1) PCIe 3.0×4 slot - Intel X550 10G (or open to suggestions to other cards, haven't purchased yet)
• (6) SATA Connections

This will all go in a Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL case. I'm moving away from the awesome Dell rack, Supermicro 4U case, and a lot of the things I had in there. It's a fairly big office and we're re-arranging the room and the space the rack is in is going to become a closet area to store my camera gear and other items.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Oh, awesome. Yeah the PCIe slots are needed to hit the full potential of the cards. I really appreciate it and I'll research it now.
 
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Other alternative is to skip the 10GB card if the motherboard has it built-in, or possibly (2) 2.5Gbe ports? This isn't going into a rack, so e-ATX or ATX is perfectly fine. Or I can do without the NVME slots if that helps. I'll just stick with SSD for the OS and VM.
 
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the problem is I couldn't find any three PCI slot boards in in any size for those CPUs from Supermicro or Asrock Rack. I am assuming you don't want a gaming board for your NAS
 
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louie1961 said:
the problem is I couldn't find any three PCI slot boards in in any size for those CPUs from Supermicro or Asrock Rack. I am assuming you don't want a gaming board for your NAS
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I ended up finding an ASUS AMD AM4 Pro WS X570-Ace ATX Workstation Motherboard. While not a server MOBO like I'm used to, at least it's a workstation and has (3) 8x PCIE 4.0 slots and will accomplish what I need. This isn't mission critical, per say, but this is my Work From Home setup and then I backup projects at our headquarters; which is also backed up out of state.
 
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If theres a spare m.2 you can get a m.2 to 6 data card. I've got dn Asmedia that works like a dream, which i didnt expect. And they are dirt cheap. I paid around 20 fof mine
 
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