1 * 10G 2*i226-V 2.5G 3LAN Intel N305 NAS Motherboard 6-Bay 6*SATA3.0 2*M.2 NVMe 1*DDR5 Soft Router ITX Mainboard

Really happy with this little board. The n305 and 10gbe is really killer for my truenas setup.It came relatively well packaged with the board in anti static bags and io cover. Shockingly it even came with the bios battery, something that's becoming rare. I had no issues getting it running, and everything worked as expected. I've read other places that for whatever reason that this particular board requires a 300w power supply, but it works fine for me with a 240w brick and DC atx converter plug.The board had no issues with the 32gb sodimm I'm using, and I'm really curious if it would run with a 64gb, but I don't have one for testing. If I manage to get my hands on one I'll definitely update.Something to keep in mind: although there are 2 nvme slots, they are both only 1x, so you're going to top out around 550MB/s. The 10gbe worked as advertised and is a huge boost over 2.5 for large file transfers, but that 550MBs disk speed limit is going to prevent link saturation.This is an upgrade from a n150 for me, and imo it's 100% worth the added cost. The extra cores are really great for my now numerous containers, and really help with video transcoding and VMs.The only two real downsides of this board are going to be the 1x nvme slots, and lack of pcie slots, but you could probably find a work around with various different nvme add on boards. So if you can live with those two drawbacks, the board is a 5/5.

This is a typical Chinese NAS board without any kind of manual, but I didn't find a need for one. I've used these before, and the connectorization is pretty much the same for all boards of this type. Take special note of the photos in this listing that show what is connected where, and you should be fine.Just remember that it can take long minutes for the first (and sometimes 2nd or 3rd) time this starts up before you get to the BIOS screen. This is totally normal as it checks the RAM and its new environment.This little baby really works great--very happy with it, and would definitely buy again.

Very easy to setup.No paperwork came with the motherboard.Installed OMV from boot usb.Moved my drives over and it recognized the file system without issue.Which was great because i was nervous how the RAID array would respond.Set the shares up and I was back online in about an hour.Runs quiet and performs very well.