I am about to build my media server, and am still undecided which hardware to use.
Case will be Silverstone LaScala LC10. It has 7 3,5" bays, which will be enough. That's why motherboard needs to have 8, or at least 6 SATA ports. I am going to also use one PCI surveillance card, so obviously board needs to have at least 1 PCI slot.
I have one ASUS M4A785TD-M Evo board lying around, and also Athlon II X2 250 CPU, but I am not sure whether I should use these parts for my server (even 5 SATA ports this board has will be sufficient for at least a year), or buy new MoBo and CPU, and use current parts in another HTPC build.
As server will be on 24/7 I guess that power consumption has to be taken in account. Atom/Brazos builds are not an option, because of lack of SATA/PCI ports.
Obvious alternatives are Intel G440 / G530 CPUs, or maybe AMD A4-3300. Am I going to reach much lower power consumption compared with Athlon II X2 250?
Any advices would be highly appreciated.
Case will be Silverstone LaScala LC10. It has 7 3,5" bays, which will be enough. That's why motherboard needs to have 8, or at least 6 SATA ports. I am going to also use one PCI surveillance card, so obviously board needs to have at least 1 PCI slot.
I have one ASUS M4A785TD-M Evo board lying around, and also Athlon II X2 250 CPU, but I am not sure whether I should use these parts for my server (even 5 SATA ports this board has will be sufficient for at least a year), or buy new MoBo and CPU, and use current parts in another HTPC build.
As server will be on 24/7 I guess that power consumption has to be taken in account. Atom/Brazos builds are not an option, because of lack of SATA/PCI ports.
Obvious alternatives are Intel G440 / G530 CPUs, or maybe AMD A4-3300. Am I going to reach much lower power consumption compared with Athlon II X2 250?
Any advices would be highly appreciated.
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