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Hi all,

I am looking at building my next NAS. My current will move to offsite, and the new will be primary. I previously used this motherboard, and was planning to go with that again. Then I saw this one, which seems like a better option. It has a slightly better CPU and a PCIe slot, but can only have 32GB memory max compared with 64GB max on my current.

Am I missing anything or is this a no-brainer to switch to the N100 board?

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The N100 only has 9 gen 3 PCI lanes. The board has 4 USB ports (2 x 3.0), 4 2.5G ethernet ports, 2 m.2 slots and 6 SATA connections. They might be using a PCI splitter chip to connect all components, which depending on the type and how it’s used could have a big effect on I/O performance.

EDIT: The N5015 from your previous board only has 8 lanes. What was your max read/write speed on it and did you see anything strange in lspci?

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What is the best way to check max read/write speed? Here is the output from lspci. Do you see anything strange?

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4e24 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation JasperLake [UHD Graphics] (rev 01) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Dynamic Tuning service 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 4ded (rev 01) 00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Device 4def (rev 01) 00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Serial IO I2C Host Controller (rev 01) 00:15.2 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dea (rev 01) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Management Engine Interface (rev 01) 00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dd3 (rev 01) 00:19.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dc5 (rev 01) 00:19.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dc6 (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4db8 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4db9 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dba (rev 01) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dbc (rev 01) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dbd (rev 01) 00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dbe (rev 01) 00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dbf (rev 01) 00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 4da8 (rev 01) 00:1e.3 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dab (rev 01) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4d87 (rev 01) 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake HD Audio (rev 01) 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake SMBus (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake SPI Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2263EN/SM2263XT SSD Controller (rev 03) 02:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB58x AHCI SATA controller 03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2263EN/SM2263XT SSD Controller (rev 03) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04) 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04) 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04)

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lspci looks fine, I don’t see anything strange.

I usually just use dd to check write speeds.

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