NAS Motherboard N5105,4 Port i226/ i225 2.5GbE LAN,M.2 NVMe, 6*SATA3.0,2*DDR4, 1*PCIe4.0, Mini ITX Soft Router VPN Openwrt Barebone Micro Appliance DIY

I ordered the board along with a 32GB ram kit. That along with a 256gb m.2 drive, a PCIE SATA Expansion card I already had, and a Corsair case that holds 8 drives, and a 350 watt power supply and a few SATA power extenders, I built a nice NAS. The BIOS is straight forward. I found the manual online for the board so I knew where the case buttons and LEDs went even though they are marked on the pin header. The ram clocked down but it wasn't a surprise.I first threw in a m.2 drive that had Windows 10 already installed and setup unbeknownst to me, and it booted it pretty quickly. I made a TrueNAS installer and installed it without issue on the m.2 drive. There were no issues during the install or setup. All 4 onboard NICS work as they should. I made 2 different storage pools of 4 disks each with RAIDZ1 and moved a decent amount of data over and the network speeds are what they should be on my setup.The board does exactly what I need it to do. I am considering buying another board, ram kit, and power supply and building another box with 8X4TB drives I have as I already have the case, m.2 drive, and PCIE SATA expansion card.

This NAS board is replacing an old E5-2697 v2 server that I use for mostly video and graphic storage to edit off of.Not only was this board easy to use, but it has no issue transferring and saturating a 2.5gig network with transfer rates.Installation was easy. I went with 2x32gb ddr4 3200 that did clock down to 2933 as expected.The main fan isn’t a PWM fan, so don’t expect to lower the fan speed. That being said, the BIOS does have a smart fan section to control it if you install a fan that supports it.As for the BIOS, it’s an old interface but has everything you need.