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Low power NAS mainboard w IPMI? (feddit.de)
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I am looking into building a new NAS to replace my aging current one. I want to go self-built with focus on low power consumption and silence. It will run FreeBSD on bare-metal. Data disks are planned to be SSD with ZFS.

With this, I am looking for a mainboard with these properties:

  • Onboard low power CPU with passive cooler (no fan)
  • Min 4 SATA ports for the data SSDs
  • Min 1 M.2 slot for the IS
  • IPMI, this will be headless, even for initial config

Any ideas? Thanks very much!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm using a SuperMicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F for my NAS.

It takes like 20-30W with 4 3.5" SATA HDDs and one M2 SSD installed. It has IPMI and I'm running it with FreeBSD 13.2, works like a charm. You just need to be aware that you need to adjust the SATA ports in the bios in order to use all 4 of them, by default only 2 SATA ports and the SAS interface will be enabled.

The temps are fine on the cpu without fan - I only have three fans in front of the drives.