Hello,
I'm building a small Unix home storage server that I will serve Blu-ray ISOs, music, etc. from. It doesn't need to process much (no HTPC decoding), just Samba/NFS and maybe be a router. A 600 MHz could probably do it. But, I have a few requirements:
* SFF (Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX or Nano-ITX or whatever)
* Quiet, fanless if possible, single 120mm would be nice if not.
* PCIe x1 slot for an eSATA RAID card I already have.
* Low power, since it will be on all the time.
* Relatively low cost.
* 4 GB RAM or more (ZFS is RAM hungry!).
* Wi-fi capable, or a PCI/PCIe slot for an HBA.
* Wired Gb Ethernet port.
I was looking at the Atom D510 and D410 but none of the boards out now have a PCIe slot (except Supermicro, which marries the CPU with another chipset, and is $200+ for the board). I am now looking at a Celery which is $65 on newegg and I could easily upgrade with my current C2D if I want later on. I could even underclock it maybe, would that work? The N330 may work but I read some articles saying a C2D can achieve the same power with better performance (hey why not) and/or variable performance.
Since I'm going to run FreeBSD on it, my hardware choices are slightly limited (e.g. Atheros wifi chipsets are really well-supported, most other brands aren't), but I can deal with that once I narrow down the CPUs.
I'm mainly looking for CPU recommendations but any matching boards that will fit the above list would be appreciated.
Thanks!
I'm building a small Unix home storage server that I will serve Blu-ray ISOs, music, etc. from. It doesn't need to process much (no HTPC decoding), just Samba/NFS and maybe be a router. A 600 MHz could probably do it. But, I have a few requirements:
* SFF (Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX or Nano-ITX or whatever)
* Quiet, fanless if possible, single 120mm would be nice if not.
* PCIe x1 slot for an eSATA RAID card I already have.
* Low power, since it will be on all the time.
* Relatively low cost.
* 4 GB RAM or more (ZFS is RAM hungry!).
* Wi-fi capable, or a PCI/PCIe slot for an HBA.
* Wired Gb Ethernet port.
I was looking at the Atom D510 and D410 but none of the boards out now have a PCIe slot (except Supermicro, which marries the CPU with another chipset, and is $200+ for the board). I am now looking at a Celery which is $65 on newegg and I could easily upgrade with my current C2D if I want later on. I could even underclock it maybe, would that work? The N330 may work but I read some articles saying a C2D can achieve the same power with better performance (hey why not) and/or variable performance.
Since I'm going to run FreeBSD on it, my hardware choices are slightly limited (e.g. Atheros wifi chipsets are really well-supported, most other brands aren't), but I can deal with that once I narrow down the CPUs.
I'm mainly looking for CPU recommendations but any matching boards that will fit the above list would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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