
-rounded corners -no sharp edges -sturdy -great paint/finish

With everything going for it, this board is awesome. I paired it with 128GB of ECC DDR4 RAM, a Ryzen 9 3950x, a 1TB NVMe and 2x 2TB SSDs for a monster homelab all-flash vSAN ESXi. Running vanilla 7.0 ESXi with vcenter 7.0 I have no problem loading it. Rounding up my build is a Fractal Design Core 500 Black case, a 1000W PSU and a Corsair Hydro Series H80i. IPMI is HTML5 based, very responsive and useful. There is a video card built in so you can run any Ryzen without having to install an external card. The board comes with one oculink to 4 sata splitter which can be configured as a SATA or PCIe handoff.

Good, strong rack. 25U is ample space for a home lab, and that is resizable (length-wise) is a definite plus.

The LSI-9305 required no setup. Merely plug it in, connect the SAS cables to the backplane and poof, done. This card supports 3.0 and 6.0 gb/s hard drives and SSD's

Same as the 9950X3D, but better binned and comes with Enterprise features not found on the desktop counterpart.


- I/O for days, there is so so much I/O for something this size! 6x slimsas 8x gen 4!!!!!! WuT! -Asrock Rack worked a pcb engineering miracle! -Seems really well made and all the features of a full size server -Perfect board for the ultimate home server built in a boutique sff. -A great option for the cheap oem 32 core 7d12 if you want to put this in something small the 7d12's lower power is easy to keep cool, also the 7d12 is a 4 memory channel chip so you are not wasting any slots! -Got on sale for $379 insane deal.

For the price, this is really a great rack. Heavy duty feel to the construction. It all goes together without much pain.


Extremely well made and designed equipment shelf Has ventilation cut-outs for air circulation Very strong, is not flimsy at all Comes with everything you need to mount the unit Your equipment will not slide off this shelf or come crashing down

-Durable powdercoat -Sturdy -Rack nuts are neither too loose nor too tight. Can be removed without a tool, but they don't fall out.

clean nice finish affordable has some space

Very well designed.


- hot swappable drives - relativity quiet fans - standard power supply accepted - enough room for long graphics cards


Great little server CPU. Not costs only a tiny bit more than a 9600x but includes some nice enterprise-level features like transparent memory encryption. Makes for a great home lab CPU.


These are great.. enterprise reliable !

Nice build quality, decent fit and finish, reasonable beveled edges. No sharp bits to get cut on.