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UPDATE: For anyone considering buying it, CWWK Q670 8 Bay NAS Mini ITX Motherboard with Intel 12/13/14 Gen CPU support was a bust and I recommend that you DO NOT BUY. Neither of the Intel i226 ethernet adaptors worked in Linux or Windows environments with multiple drivers tried and the board has poor power delivery that caps out at about 120W. Testing using CinebenchR23 the best score I could get for my (yes I bought a different CPU) i7 14700 (with a lot of BIOS tweaking) was ~12000 points. The average expected score for this CPU is ~30000 points which it fell far short of and its max power is 219W. The P cores under load never went past 3GHz with tweaking, and stock BIOS settings they were around 2.3GHz and a score of ~8000 points. On a slightly more positive note the IO Crest M.2 to 10GbE adaptor worked well but the paltry passive heatsink on it did barely anything and was extremely hot even under light loads. I returned both the IO Crest adaptor and the motherboard to Ali Express for a full refund and swapped to using an ASRock Z790M-ITX WIFI Motherboard with an M.2 to 6 Sata 3 Ports adaptor card. The Chinese motherboard also had a pathetic support website and BIOS/Driver updates so consider yourself warned.

I moved on from AMD and went with an Intel board for the replacement. Q670-8Bay NAS Mini ITX motherboard upgrade, supports Intel 12-14 generation processors, 8 SATA3.0 ports, I226LM 2.5G with vPro https://cwwk.net/products/q670-8bay-nas-mini-itx-motherboard-upgraded-version-lga1700-supports-intell12-14-gen-processors-ddr5-dual-4k-displays-5x-usb3-2-8-sata3-0-ports-i226lm-2-5g-with-vpro-q670-2xsff-8643?_fid=42bce0f92&_pos=61&_ss=c I will also buy a Intel 12700K for it for a nice little powerhouse. Sorted.

And now I have cancelled the order as while it said it was in stock it was not and they do not make it anymore. Great. Does anyone have any alternative motherboard suggestions? No Intel 13th/14th Gen though.

Alright so I pulled the trigger and bought the motherboard from AliExpress. I will wait until the board arrives in one piece first before I order everything else.

If 10 GbE networking is not possible or viable then I planned to do Link Aggregation with the 4 x 2.5GbE NICs on the motherboard. Using this on my old QNAP.

Thanks very much for the feedback Mobius. I agree the IO Crest 10 Gigabit M.2 card is a bit of a risk but I have read that other options such as 10 Gig Ethernet via USB are usually no better and have their own problems. I will keep looking and see if there is something better on offer. Thanks also for the tips about the SSD size and the PSU. I am not sure if I can do it but I was hoping to be able to create a separate partition on the SSD used for the OS to use as a cache drive. I will take a look at the hardware busters article.

Hello Everyone, I am brand new to the forums, be gentle with me 😉 I currently have a QNAP TS-853 Pro which has just hit 10 years old, and it is showing its age. I run a Plex server on a separate PC with an RTX 4060 GPU that accesses files from the NAS, as the NAS hits 100% CPU usage doing a single CPU video transcode operation. I looked at upgrading to a QNAP TVS-h874-i5-32G but the cost of QNAPs has substantially increased in the last 10 years and it costs far too much. The i5 version is also the lowest SKU with an i7 and i9 CPU version sitting above it. I have instead decided to DIY my own NAS using HexOS (or TrueNAS vanilla) and wanted to sanity check my parts and look at any possible compatibility issues. A DIY NAS is also less than half the price of a QNAP TVS-h874-i5-32G and I will gladly listen to any constructive feedback on my hardware choices as follows: Case - Jonsbo N3 SFF 18L Mini-ITX 8-Bay NAS Case (Black) CPU/Mobo Combo - Topton 9-Bay NAS Motherboard AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS (https://www.toptonpc.com/product/9-bay-nas-motherboard-amd-ryzen-7-8845hs-usb4-4xi226-v-2-5g-lan-9xsata3-0-2xm-2-nvme-pcie-x16-2xddr5-mini-itx-firewall-mainboard/) CPU Cooler - Thermalright Peerless Assassin 90 SE Black CPU Cooler RAM - Crucial 64GB (2x32GB) 5600MHz DDR5 SODIMM PSU - CORSAIR SF Series SF750 750W Power Supply - More power than I need but chosen for the 80 Plus Platinum efficiency rating GPU - GeForce RTX 4060 (to be migrated over from other PC currently running Plex Server) HDDs - 8 x Seagate Ironwolf 12TB NAS Drives - Migrating these over from the old NAS after backing up my data. Drives are in good condition with no issues. M.2 Port #1 - Crucial P3 Plus 2TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD M.2 Port #2 - IO Crest 10 Gigabit M.2 M Key Ethernet Network Expansion Card - UNSURE ON COMPATIBILITY OF THIS (https://www.amazon.com.au/IO-Crest-Gigabit-Ethernet-Expansion/dp/B0BWSLSK78?th=1) Fans - 2 x Noctua 80mm NF-R8 Redux Edition 1800RPM PWM Fan OS - HexOS primarily, TrueNAS vanilla as a backup Notes: 1. I am tracking that Intel CPUs are better for Plex transcoding due to their Quick Sync technology that is optimised for Plex. 2. I am using an AMD CPU that is not really optimised for Plex transcoding, but I have dealt with that by using a dedicated GPU with the RTX 4060, and Plex can use nVidia NVEC for transcoding which is Plex optimised. 3. I looked at other ITX motherboard CPU combos but the Topton one offered much better performance than the other Intel variants and I refuse to use any 13th/14th gen Intel CPUs due to the ongoing issues with them. 4. I want to move to 10 Gigabit networking thus the M.2 adapter but if it does not work then I can use one of the four Intel 2.5gbe i226-v NICs on the motherboard. Thank you.