Hello there, i’m looking to upgrade my 10 years old NAS/server. I already have the HDD and the case. But i have difficulties to chose motherboard, PSU, CPU & RAM.

So far i’m looking for :

AMD CPU, +12 threads
Because it’s already a RAID6 I’m looking for a bunch of SATA ports, maybe a LSI ? Which one ? And 2 NVME slots for the Motherboard.
More than 16GB of ram, IF possible ECC
All of this available in western Europe
I’m aiming for a budget between 600€ and 900€ for those 4 components.

(I do know why i’m aiming at this kind of hardware. But I have stopped being hardware enthusiast like 9 years ago and I really need some help for this)

Have a nice day and a nice weekend :)

(If it’s the wrong place to ask for hardware advises I’m sorry)

Edit to reflect questions :

  • 8 SATA ports is a minimum, more is good (that’s why i’m looking at LSI)
  • 1Gb/s Network is a minimum, 2.5Gb/s is cool
  • The Motherboard should be at max ATX format, not larger

Have a great day

  • tty5@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 days ago

    The only AM4 and AM5 motherboards I’m aware of that officially claim to fully support ECC are made by Asrock as their server sub-brand Asrock Rack. They are pricey AF - 500-600 euro for the motherboard alone. As a bonus you get 2x10Gb ethernet + separate ethernet port for remote management, including bios access and a bunch of other goodies.

    I used one of those (Asrock Rack X570D4I-2T) for my NAS - it comes with 2 oculink ports, each of which provides 4x SATA.

    Unofficially ECC works on many (possibly all) B an X chipset series motherboards as long as you are not using G-series CPU. If you google around you’ll find a bunch of unofficial confirmations from users of specific motherboards that it does work.

    E.g. Asus PRIME B650M-R + Ryzen 7600 (non-x) is a good start and will cost you 250-300 euro total. LSI 9300 16I will add 16 SATA ports for another 50-60 euro. 200-250 euro for a 2x16GB ecc kit.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      Most boards do support it unofficially, AFAIK.

      In my Asrock B650E BIOS (a consumer ITX board), there’s literally an option for enabling/disabling DIMM ECC.

    • Rewash@feddit.frOPEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Genuine question, why “non-x” (4th paragraph) CPU ? Is there incompatibility issue with EEC or it’s just because they are kinda high-end CPU ?

      Do you have good brand for RAM in mind ?

      • tty5@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 days ago

        7600 has >90% of 7600x performance with a 65W TDP instead of 105W and it’s cheaper. 7900 non-x also has a 65W TDP despite having twice the cores. Both x and non-x can be pushed down to 45W by enabling eco mode in bios. Performance difference between 65W and 45W is less than 5%.

        If X variant is very close price-wise to non-X go with X obviously, but otherwise don’t stress about getting the slower one, because for server workloads the difference is very small.

      • tty5@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 days ago

        Do you have good brand for RAM in mind

        I usually go with Crucial for desktop RAM, but that’s not a strong preference, but rather good price to performance ratio for the faster memory kits they have. Might not translate to ECC memory.