[nycbug-talk] Home storage server build

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 7:49:13 pm Jonathan wrote:
> On 3/4/2012 9:07 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> > My current question is what motherboards would you recommend?  Brands to
> > look at or avoid or specific models are welcome.
> 
> I've narrowed it down to 2 models one Intel board and one SuperMicro
> board.  Does anyone have any suggestions either way?  I can't seem to
> find any feature that would force me to choose one over the other and I
> need to decide tonight so they arrive in time. I'll order the parts at
> midnight EST so if you see this before then please let me know what you
> think.
> 
> 
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=motherboard&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=10910872277814236360&sa=X&ei=aZJWT6nTLcKJgwfTu9HDCg&ved=0CNcBEOUNMAA
> and
> 
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=motherboard&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=1344085792576345577&sa=X&ei=aZJWT6nTLcKJgwfTu9HDCg&ved=0CPkBEOUNMAI
> 
> Jonathan

If you are going to use IPMI for remote management, then I would go with the 
SM board since SM IPMI BMC's have remote KVM, etc. whereas the Intel boards 
I've worked with have a much simpler IPMI BMC (you can maybe do serial-over-
LAN, but not a full-blown KVM).

-- 
John Baldwin