![]() ![]() Media servers often have a lot of hard drives so more SATA ports = more better in my opinion.Ĭommonly, boards that ship with 8 ports have 6 on one SATA controller and 2 on another. The board has 8 - count 'em - on-board SATA ports. It's got a single M.2 NVME/SATA (beware SATA mode is shared with the SATA_0 port) slot and 3 PCI-E expansion slots - one of which is suitable for a GPU and that could be useful if you intend to use this board for PCI passthrough purposes. Next let's take a look at the layout of the board itself. A tasty little number might be the i3 8100 CPU which supports ECC and has Quick Sync video encoding built-in. Note that not all CPUs that this board is compatible with will support that much RAM so make sure to check on Intel's ARK what your CPU will support. Supporting this much memory gives me a huge amount of confidence that this board will last as long as I need it to and run as many containers or VMs as I can dream up. 4x32GB DDR4 RAM sticks will cost you a mere ~$600, but the point is you can do it. ASRock Rack E3C246D4U - A mATX media server powerhouse Memory Supportįirst, the board will take up to 128GB of DDR4 RAM - both ECC and and non-ECC memory is supported depending on your CPU choice. ![]() ![]() What makes it so perfect? That's what I'll attempt to discuss in this post. The board in question is the ASRock Rack E3C246D4U. For many years I've been searching for a spiritual successor to the ultimately doomed Intel C2000 line of low power media server motherboards. ![]()
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