I bought a 20 dollar OEM Inventec C202 SandyBridge era Motherboard off ebay. Its a server board with LSI-SAS2008 onboard.
Just for kicks I added in a M.2 NVME drive. Surprisingly the NVMe showed up. Just for kicks I added a second and it worked.
Not terrible scores for PCIe 2.0 bus, 953 Megabytes/sec max. Single drive.
For the price I was happy and adding a E3-1220L at 20W I am running fanless.
I had no idea I would be able to add a NVMe for storage too. No booting off this module. Suprised it works at all.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273245612048
Some weird board quirks though. I can't get BIOS to hold some changes I make. Turning on VT-d does not stick but VMX is supported by CPU.
So no virt for this board. With my 2 core 20W chip it is not a big deal.
These boards only take Xeon E3 chips.
There is a version with no BMC. It uses only the AST1300 Video chip.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273232710090
15 bucks for a server board. What a country...
*manual not included*
Do notice that the SATA connectors on the cheaper board on are slighlty flimsy style.
Another source with some details. There are Inventec LGA1150 boards up too and LGA2011.
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/half-decent-all-in-one-build.7423/
Just for kicks I added in a M.2 NVME drive. Surprisingly the NVMe showed up. Just for kicks I added a second and it worked.
Not terrible scores for PCIe 2.0 bus, 953 Megabytes/sec max. Single drive.
Code:
diskinfo -t /dev/nvd0
Transfer rates:
outside: 102400 kbytes in 0.134819 sec = 759537 kbytes/sec
middle: 102400 kbytes in 0.114932 sec = 890962 kbytes/sec
inside: 102400 kbytes in 0.107369 sec = 953720 kbytes/sec
Code:
root@Inventec:~ # nvmecontrol devlist
nvme0: THNSN5512GPU7 TOSHIBA
nvme0ns1 (488386MB)
nvme1: THNSN5512GPU7 TOSHIBA
nvme1ns1 (488386MB)
For the price I was happy and adding a E3-1220L at 20W I am running fanless.
I had no idea I would be able to add a NVMe for storage too. No booting off this module. Suprised it works at all.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273245612048
Some weird board quirks though. I can't get BIOS to hold some changes I make. Turning on VT-d does not stick but VMX is supported by CPU.
So no virt for this board. With my 2 core 20W chip it is not a big deal.
These boards only take Xeon E3 chips.
There is a version with no BMC. It uses only the AST1300 Video chip.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273232710090
15 bucks for a server board. What a country...
*manual not included*
Do notice that the SATA connectors on the cheaper board on are slighlty flimsy style.
Another source with some details. There are Inventec LGA1150 boards up too and LGA2011.
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/half-decent-all-in-one-build.7423/