Home server hardware help needed

[zak riddington]

Hi All,

I am in the process of building a home server and so far i have the following components:
16gb of kingston ECCmemory, Intel Xeon e3 1220 v3, 5x2TB WDred and a corsair 450w psu.

Apart from the case, I'm only missing the motherboard and im kinda stuck on which to get.

Does anyone have any recommendations on one to get? I need ECC ram support, at least 5 sata 6gbps ports, an LGA 1150 socket and a gigabit LAN port.

Just for reference, I'll be using this to put freenas on and use the ZFS file system.

I don't mind about the form factor of the board as I haven't bought a case yet.

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

If you are just doing FreeNAS that is serious overkill. For FreeNAS I would recommend the Pentium G3258. If you intend to use it as a media server, say, step up to a Xeon E3-1231v3. The HyperThreading is worth it.

 

[zak riddington]

If you are just doing FreeNAS that is serious overkill. For FreeNAS I would recommend the Pentium G3258. If you intend to use it as a media server, say, step up to a Xeon E3-1231v3. The HyperThreading is worth it.

I will be adding in the Plex plugin and ill put a load of films on it. The Xeon will be ok i think as i won't have anymore then a few clients at the worst of times. I expect ill add a mail server to it too and maybe some other things too. I would rather have overkill than under. Thank you for your response too!

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

Yeah, if you are running Plex definitely go with w Xeon with HyperThreading, it's a huge improvement for that. And here's a decent board with ECC support. http://pcpartpicker.com/part/supermicro-motherboard-x10sllf