In the latest level1techs video Wendel asked for motherboard suggestions for homeserver builds.
For a build in the Jonsbo N1 i have repeatedly thought about the B550I AORUS PRO AX. It has four SATA III ports and two m.2 pcie/sata slots. With a cheap and dump adapter board (AK-PCCMSA-02) one of the m.2 slots could be converter to a SATA port giving us the five ports we would need to fill all 3.5" bays, while leaving the x16 pcie slot open as well.
The board should also, at least in some form support ECC memory.
Thats kinda where the questions begin:
Does the ECC work?
How well does is work, with which CPU (Renoir, Ryzen PRO)?
How is the power consumption?
No additional PCIE devices should keep idle consumption relatively low, especially if used with a monolithic AM4 CPU.
Are there some clever ways to keep the second m.2 slots open for expansion instead of using it for the OS drive?
If we could get around using the second m.2 slot for the OS drive we could instead use one of the “cheat code” m.2 modules from previous videos - but how? Are there for example affordable and reliable USB DOMs and how would we connect one?
You could get PCI-E 1x SATA controller card. They are pretty cheap and do add 2 or 4 sata ports. Mine works out of the box (no additional drivers needed) basically everywhere (windows 8.1+, centos 7+ tested)
In hindsight i should have made it a lot clearer that this is meant as a response to the latest level1 video.
In which Wendel asks for motherboard suggestions for upcoming NAS/Homeserver builds.
Also there might be better categories to flag this post with, but im not sure which i should have used.
Sorry for the confusion, first time using the forums.