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Do any of the server motherboard manufacturers (I’m thinking Supermicro, I don’t know who else sells ~1) make mini-ITX boards? I’d like to have remote management for my NAS, but I don’t have space for something larger than the mini-ITX case I have.

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My last one was a ROMED8-2T from Asrock Rack. They have a catalog with standard and also weird motherboards(mine came with 7 PCIev4 slots because it's a GPU server, and 6 of them had dedicated lanes to the CPU. Most motherboards try to share bandwidth with a PCIe switch, so not ideal for machine learning)

A quick search shows 2 Intel motherboards with mini-ITX form. There was also a micro-ATX.

https://download.asrock.com/Download/e-catalog/ASRockRackPro...

I've also bought from Gigabyte before. The selection isn't as good, but I see an AMD and 3 Intel with mini-ITX. You might have to get separate embedded versions of the processors.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard

I think Intel has more options with smaller boards here. Always check the block diagram to see if the IO matches how you'll use it.

Also if you want specifically a NAS, get a prebuilt model from e.g. QNAP and it will come with a management interface already.

I got this one for $600:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FB5LBJP

If you outgrow a 9-bay NAS, they also sell full storage servers with management.

I was very tempted to build a NAS too, but ultimately prebuilt was better I think.

Yes. Basically any motherboard Supermicro release which has F in the model means, that there is IPMI which allows remote management. X10, X11 and X12 motherboards have html5 viewer, which doesn't require java. I just ordered X11SCL-IF for my NAS and it is mini-itx. There are couple from Asorck rack available as well, and also mini-itx and with ipmi.

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