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I intend to put the Motherboard in one of these NAS cases from U-NAS: http://www.u-nas.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17640&cat=249&page=1 IPMI would be nice to have for something like this, but i don't think it is a must have as the NAS will be easy to physically access. My problem with that supermicro board is that it only has 6 sata ports and on top of that only has standard PCI expansion rather than PCIE... is that a big deal? are there good PCI raid controllers?

Good call! I am not finding any Supermicro boards with any decent amount of SATA ports, thus i am looking for boards with pciexpress for a raid card + IPMI. This dell one is the only one i am finding... any reason it wouldn't work?

Just as the title says. My ASRock Z68 Pro-3 M motherboard just finally ate it. So, I am left with my first CPU i5-2500k and 16gb of DDR3 that I would like to re-purpose into NAS duty. Thinking this U-NAS case would be a good option for me. My question is, what motherboard would y'all recommend? The front runner from a little bit of my shopping is the ASUS P8P67-M PRO. It has 7 sata ports (... not sure if I should be using onboard or getting a raid card...) advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!