HKUXZR 1 * 10G 2*i226-V 2.5G 3LAN Intel N100/N150N305 NAS Motherboard 6-Bay 6*SATA3.0 2*M.2 NVMe 1*DDR5 Soft Router ITX Mainboard (N305)

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.

UPDATE 10/23/25: This thing definitely has a fatal disk controller problem. After I wrote the review below, it dropped sdb (sata2) overnight, similar to the first board's problem. Rebooting brought it back, but it dropped again several hours later, and this has been the pattern ever since. It isn't the disk, I went so far as to swap in a pair of new Seagate drives, on the theory that I got a bad batch of WD Reds. No change. It isn't the cables, have now tried three new cables in each. No change. It isn't TrueNAS, ls /dev showed sdb/sdb1 had vanished. I give up. Returning and will try again with a different brand. Now one star; the board has good specs for the price, but it simply isn't reliable enough for 24/7 operation. (original review) Config: The beefier N305 motherboard, 16GB RAM, two 256GB NVMe drives, two 4TB WD Red Pro, which will eventually be six, latest TrueNAS. Good: It's fast. Booted into the TrueNAS installation flash drive in under 5 seconds, after install boots to console menu in under 30 seconds. Installation is straightforward (but see below). Enough SATA3 ports (six) for my NAS needs. CPU fan is a plus, all boards in this class need at least a small fan but many do not have one. Does not appear to be a power hog as so many similar boards are. Docs are adequate for installation (but, again, see below.) Good price considering that it's hard to find a similar SuperMicro board for under $1K now. Built-in 10Gb Ethernet port is a big plus. Bad: The I/O backplate cutouts are offset a bit to the left and up, requiring you to loosen the board mounting screws a little and jockey the board around to unblock all of the jacks. It has HDMI and DisplayPort video but no VGA, which can be a problem in a server rack. No IPMI, ditto. Only one RAM slot, but it's DDR5 so the performance hit isn't severe. The bios setup only shows the first three SATA ports, has a 2025 date so even assuming an update is available it probably won't help. Documentation is good for little more than installation; good luck trying to troubleshoot if you don't know your way around an AMI BIOS. Technical support appears to be nonexistent. Sum of topic: this is not a motherboard for beginners. Bottom line: As you may have guessed, I bought this to replace a failed NAS motherboard whose replacement cost has tripled over the past several years. The first one I bought was bad; it would only recognize the spinner on SATA1 and the 10Gb port was dead. Amazon offered a rapid exchange, and two days later the replacement showed up and is installed and working. One quirk I noticed was that the big hard drives were reluctant to start the first time after installation. Once the motherboard recognized them after several minutes they were fine, and have been so ever since. I don't know whether this is a quirk of the motherboard, or the drives, or if something got confused during the multiple, rapid power cycling while troubleshooting the first board. When it's time for the next pair of Reds to go in, I think I'm going to plug them into my laptop via USB adapter first, wake them up, format them and exercise them a little before installing them in the server. At any rate, it's working now and working well. Hopefully it'll stay that way for a few years with the full eight-drive configuration. I wouldn't use this in a business installation, but for a hobbyist it's fine. Five stars, barely - the lack of support resources almost cost it that fifth.

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.

This board comes with no documentation and it has 6 SATA ports but only one is visible from the bios. The other 5 will be seen by the OS. I installed Ubuntu and was able to do a software raid 1 with two disk connected to the SATA ports. It should be great with Truenas even if the disk are limited to sata speed. The two nvme would be nice for read and write cache

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.