Information required: Motherboard Mini ITX with DDR4

[mehegazy]

Hi All,

First of all thanks a lot for the good work, I am new here but I can see there's a lot of information posted in the forum.

 

I need your help in something, I just bought hardware to build my first xpenology, but by mistake the motherboard was big and won't fit in the case. I can't change the rest of the configuration as I need a small case so my only solution is to change the board.

Processor that I bought is core i5 7th generation, rams are DDR4.

So I wanted to buy a MB that is small (mini ITX) and have a supported chips out of the box. All what I can find online have one of three NICs (RTL8111H, Intel GbE or Intel I219-V) I can't see any of these NICs in the xpenology compatibility list xpenology.me/compatible . So, Can you help me by suggesting either a good motherboard or any of the mentioned NICs that can work without any issue?

 

Thanks a lot

[sbv3000]

I think the hardware list at the .me site is quite old and not updated often  I've setup  XPE 5.2 and 6.1 with realtek and intel NICs you mention and these are popular embedded nics on lots of mobos so I imagine you would be ok. I think 6.0.2 did not have as many drivers included so you might need to test depending on which version of XPE you are planning to use. A good mobo might be the  ASRock Z270M-ITX/ac, has 6 intel sata ports so good for storage, not used this myself but am tempted

[mehegazy]

1 hour ago, sbv3000 said:

I think the hardware list at the .me site is quite old and not updated often  I've setup  XPE 5.2 and 6.1 with realtek and intel NICs you mention and these are popular embedded nics on lots of mobos so I imagine you would be ok. I think 6.0.2 did not have as many drivers included so you might need to test depending on which version of XPE you are planning to use. A good mobo might be the  ASRock Z270M-ITX/ac, has 6 intel sata ports so good for storage, not used this myself but am tempted

 

Thanks a lot for the reply, this is giving me a lot of options to choose from. I will update the post again once I build my NAS.

 

[mehegazy]

Hello there,

 

I have installed my xpenology on GIGABYTE GA-H270N-WIFI  motherboard. The installation was a piece of cake, nothing unusual.

So, It is like what sbv3000 said, the hardware list on xpenology.me is not updated.

The Motherboard came with 2 GbE NIC and both worked fine out of the box.

Thanks a lot sbv3000 for your help.