[mythtv-users] Motherboard / case suggestions for early 2022 backend

[Jay Foster]

On 12/10/2021 11:31 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
> Late 2020, I had a thread "Slightly OT: Powering up remotely" that 
> discussed an issue with my mythtv box at home while I was in 
> self-imposed quarantine outside the city.
>
> Long story short, I made it back in yesterday and instead of 
> confronting a system waiting for some drive prompt as we thought, it 
> looks like the power supply had called it quits after a decade.
>
> Of course, I'm deciding that I might want to build a modern system as 
> the old combo  front/backend was limited in speed and memory.
>
> As I peruse possible holiday sales, I wanted to pick yer brains.
>
> - Will be a backend only, probably using Shield/Chromecast as frontend
> - most of the budget will be for at least a couple of 12+ TB NAS 
> drives for recordings/video library
> - AMD? Intel? Speed? Cores?
> - motherboard suggestions? Perhaps an NVME for OS/database, but enough 
> SATA connections for possible expansion past two storage drives.
> - case: current case is just over a foot tall. Limited bays. Would 
> like a case that can hold at least four 3.5 inch drives.
>
> If anyone has built a backend lately, I'd love to hear your choices.
>
> Thanks!
>
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I recently rebuilt my desktop with a new MB.  You mentioned powering up 
remotely in your post.  One thing I have noticed is that the ethernet 
adapters that are built into the MBs now no longer seem to support wake 
on LAN (WOL).  The ethernet chips do (they advertise it) and you can set 
it (via ethtool), but it has no effect (I don't think the chip is wired 
up to implement it).  This is a detail that is hard to determine before 
you purchase.  I also needed a kernel > = 5.10 to work with the newer 
ethernet chips (Ubuntu 20.04.1 + HWE).
I like my old SilverStone case.  The MediaPC case I am using now is 
smaller (not as deep) which is a plus, but room for only 3 drives with 
little air flow for them.  When I do my next rebuild, I will go back to 
my old SilverStone case.
Jay