Review on ASUS WS C246M PRO: Advanced LGA1151 ECC DDR4 M.2 C246 Server Workstation Micro ATX Motherboard for 8th Gen Intel Core CPUs by Paul Sanchez

Create a new storage server. Requires ECC and at least 8 SATA ports. I started with a similar Gigabyte model. It was very easy. No built-in speaker for beeps, no LED indicators for troubleshooting. I was having trouble starting and tried this one. difference between day and night. Asus packs the board with diagnostic lights all over it, has a BIOS flash utility that can only be used with power cords plugged into the board, and a speaker that beeps when something goes wrong. Got it and ran it after finding out the ECC box I bought didn't fit. Now it runs with loads of memory and a bit of non-ECC RAM to get it working. So far this has been solid and I don't expect that to change.