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the DELL H310's that are currently on ebay have native passthrough support for drives WITH OUT needing a special IT firmware flashed. this saves time for most, and at 90$ each they are a great deal.
i happened to have a very low cost ECS IC870M-A2 AM3 board and it fully supports pci-e HBA/SAS cards. including full BIOS on those cards. with only one x16 slot it needed a pci video card but for a NAS that would be fine. also it speaks well of other ECS boards supporting HBA/SAS cards. i have not tested ECC support on this board. it will get my HP P410 while things are being moved, and will become a NAS to hold my backups when things are complete.
also MSI AMD products are known to fully support SAS/HBA cards, and most MSI boards support ECC memory. the needed section in the bios will show up when ECC memory is installed. my 'new' ZFS build will be an older MSI 790fx with 16gb PC3 ECC RAM, 2 dell H310 cards, 12 hotswap bays, 2 internal ssd bays, and a dual gig port intel nic. and a radeon hd6570, that will have all of my multi-lane pci-e slots used. the 790fx board i have only supports 6-cores. this will be my ZFS Proxmox server for the main file storage (something solaris, with passthrough) and a linux box for the rest of my heavy-lifting workloads. i have this in a rackmount half height chassis.
these could be a cheap way to get up to 8 cores, and 4 pci-e slots. pci-e 3.0 is not generally supported, but for home use pci-e 2.0 can handle enough bandwidth for 8 drives on an HBA. Avoid ASUS products, usually SAS/HBA are known to cause issues.
the NZXT 210 will hold 8-11 HD's (or more if a cage is installed) and at 39$ its build quality is amazing. AND this case will lay down on a rack shelf and actually fits pretty well. the elite version is tool-less too, making HD installs easier if you change them out a lot.
i happened to have a very low cost ECS IC870M-A2 AM3 board and it fully supports pci-e HBA/SAS cards. including full BIOS on those cards. with only one x16 slot it needed a pci video card but for a NAS that would be fine. also it speaks well of other ECS boards supporting HBA/SAS cards. i have not tested ECC support on this board. it will get my HP P410 while things are being moved, and will become a NAS to hold my backups when things are complete.
also MSI AMD products are known to fully support SAS/HBA cards, and most MSI boards support ECC memory. the needed section in the bios will show up when ECC memory is installed. my 'new' ZFS build will be an older MSI 790fx with 16gb PC3 ECC RAM, 2 dell H310 cards, 12 hotswap bays, 2 internal ssd bays, and a dual gig port intel nic. and a radeon hd6570, that will have all of my multi-lane pci-e slots used. the 790fx board i have only supports 6-cores. this will be my ZFS Proxmox server for the main file storage (something solaris, with passthrough) and a linux box for the rest of my heavy-lifting workloads. i have this in a rackmount half height chassis.
these could be a cheap way to get up to 8 cores, and 4 pci-e slots. pci-e 3.0 is not generally supported, but for home use pci-e 2.0 can handle enough bandwidth for 8 drives on an HBA. Avoid ASUS products, usually SAS/HBA are known to cause issues.
the NZXT 210 will hold 8-11 HD's (or more if a cage is installed) and at 39$ its build quality is amazing. AND this case will lay down on a rack shelf and actually fits pretty well. the elite version is tool-less too, making HD installs easier if you change them out a lot.
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