Best board for home server

[scoobyx13x]

Building a home server and I need the most stable and durable board that I can find.

Ideally, it would have at least 8 usable SATA ports (will not be doing motherboard raid). I do NOT care at all about overclocking. It just needs to drive a E2180 and 8 750gb HDDs without giving me any grief at all. If there is a chipset that is more energy efficient, that would be great as well.

But the bottom line is stable and reliable 24/7/365 operation.

 

[NXIL]

Hi scoob,

the BadAxe2: 8 SATA. Solid, reliable, but not inexpensive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813121059

DFI:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813136039

P5Q Deluxe: also not cheap:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131297

Plain Jane p5Q: better

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131295

Newegg's stock of Intel motherboards with 8+ SATA:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...6&bop=And&Order=RATING

Server board:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131228

Or, standard mobo, and add in card for more ports?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...7&bop=And&Order=RATING

HTH\\NXIL

 

[faster]

I have used a few of the Gigabyte ultra durable mobos in builds lateley. One of them is a file server that has been running 24/7 for 1 year come September using the integrated RAID in 10, 2GB DDR2, and an Q6600. We just leave it on and forget about it. The only motherboard that has crapped out on me and left me high and dry is EVGA. To a lesser extent, MSI. Go for the ultra durable series, so far they seem to be. Alternatively, go for an ATX server motherboard that takes ECC memory. Enterprise class boards tend to have higher quality.

 

[toadeater]

The Asus P5Q might be good for you because of the power-saving features.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131295

 

[evident]

I can vouch for the ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe 975x chipset or abit ip35-pro p35 chipset. both are rock solid for me and served me very well.