Motherboard for a Linux Samba server

[Greth]

What motherboards would anyone recommend for building a new Samba server? I?m looking for RAID options (5 or 10), reliability, and cost.

Thanks

Greth

 

[Peter]

What scale are we talking about? Five clients, 50, 500? What kind of traffic? Backup strategy (no, RAID is not a valid answer)? Etc. etc.

The mainboard would be the least (and last) of your worries if you want to build a server - and do it right.

 

[Greth]

There will be about five clients. Backups will be made to DVD's. The system is for a dance studio to store their video, pictures, and music on. Documents would also be stored there. They are currently using way too many USB drives that are causing problems.