I'm reconfiguring my whole server stack at home, been using a Ryzen 3600 on an Asrock motherboard to run a bunch of VM containers on proxmox, virtualized pfsense, email, a bunch of other things, with a supermicro backplane and SAS drives attached. After replacing the ASrock MB *TWICE* i am sick of the problems and am moving back to a discrete supermicro X10 board for pfsense firewall duty in a 1U case, and an X11 Supermicro board with a couple of SAS HBA for NAS duty, which leaves me with a nice hole for the VM stuff i want to do in a big 4U case with a Ryzen 3600 and bunch of DDR4 ram sitting around with no use.
So does it make sense to try to find a Ryzen motherboard OTHER than ASrock to run my VMs on with what i have, or just start over with Intel? I have been digging around on Newegg for a couple of weeks looking for AM4 motherboards that are more server-like, but practically everything is gaming focused.
I'd like something power efficient if possible, my power bill is already over 500 a month with all these computers running 24/7. The high availability stuff is the NAS and the pfsense box. I don't need the server uptime to be bulletproof, but it would be nice to leave it on 24/7 without a crash every 2 days like the Asrock has gotten to be. I just don't have any confidence in them anymore. I'd just jump straight to a Supermicro board but they have very little in AMD offerings. Maybe it does make sense to abandon the AMD chip.
Looking for advice. Thank you!
So does it make sense to try to find a Ryzen motherboard OTHER than ASrock to run my VMs on with what i have, or just start over with Intel? I have been digging around on Newegg for a couple of weeks looking for AM4 motherboards that are more server-like, but practically everything is gaming focused.
I'd like something power efficient if possible, my power bill is already over 500 a month with all these computers running 24/7. The high availability stuff is the NAS and the pfsense box. I don't need the server uptime to be bulletproof, but it would be nice to leave it on 24/7 without a crash every 2 days like the Asrock has gotten to be. I just don't have any confidence in them anymore. I'd just jump straight to a Supermicro board but they have very little in AMD offerings. Maybe it does make sense to abandon the AMD chip.
Looking for advice. Thank you!