I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.

So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.

I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.

Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.

If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.

The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.

Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler

    • stoy@lemmy.zipOP
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      9 days ago

      Interesting, can you send me the modelnumber as I can’t seem to navigate away from the german language in Ali Express?

      • rmean@feddit.orgEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I’m sorry, but the model name is:

        Intel 4x i226-V 2,5G LANs 6-Bay N100 N150 i3-N305 N355 NAS Motherboard 2*NVMe 6*SATA3.0 DDR5 Mini ITX Mainboard PCIex1 Typ-C

        Maybe try searching for “Topton official store” on Aliexpress and try navigating from there… Good luck!