Economical SFF ZFS box

[ecosmartpc]

+1 for the SFX class PSU. I'm running this PSU in my HTPC in a tiny Lian Li case and it's a great unit. It comes with an ATX adapter so it will fit almost anywhere.

Another +1. I have a FSP GHS-R 300W SFX PSU in my Lian-Li PC-Q08 home server and it's great. I like the SFX's with the adapter for small cases that take ATX PSUs like the PC-Q08, Q25, Q07 and the Silverstone ML03.

 

[twoj]

Maybe someone can offer me some alternatives, I've been looking for a small form factor (sff) motherboard, case to use with freenas.
My criteria is that it has ECC memory, be as physically small as possible (mini itx, micro atx motherboard) and be as low power as possible.

Looking at this thread and doing my own research it seems that the Intel DBS1200KP is the only mini itx motherboard to accept ECC - however as previously mentioned it seems very particular about CPU & memory and has several limitations.
There seems a few matx motherboards that accept AMD processors with ECC memory but there doesn't seem to be any cases (especially like the Lian Li PC-Q25B) that have hot swap and support 4-7 drives.
I know there exists HP's microserver N40L but I'd like to see what exists besides this.

Also the Atom processors again as mentioned don't support ECC as yet.

My objective is to build a small NAS where i can have a minimum of 4 drives, at least 8gb ram, and make it as low power and pysically small as possible.

thanks

 

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131843

Does this AMD board support ECC? Do their lower-end APUs support it? Does the mobo BIOS have to support it too, or just the OS?

 

[blastingcap]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131843

Does this AMD board support ECC? Do their lower-end APUs support it? Does the mobo BIOS have to support it too, or just the OS?

No.

Get any AMD-based AM2+/3 or FX ASUS motherboard with a series 7 or later chipset, even the cheap ones using the 760G chipset. They all support ECC.

If you want Intel, Core i3's, Pentium, and presumably Celerons all support ECC if they are Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge, but only when paired with chipsets that support ECC, such as the C20x motherboards, and even then the mobo maker also needs to be on board. ASUS has sketchy non-Xeon ECC support even though the Intel C20x chipsets support ECC for non-Xeon CPUs.