Using Atom for server?

aragon said:
Guys, if you want killer performance then you should consider an H55 based mini-itx board such as the Zotac H55-ITX-WiFi. Although it's not an Atom, these boards have been tested to idle at 30 watts.

I'd love to go with an i5 over an Atom and > 4 gigs would be awesome.

This board unfortunately only has 1 Gig interface and 5 sata ports. At min I could see the need for 6. 4 for RaidZ, 1 for ssd and 1 for CD Rom.

Also no need for wifi/audio.
 
feralape said:
I'd love to go with an i5 over an Atom and > 4 gigs would be awesome.

This board unfortunately only has 1 Gig interface and 5 sata ports. At min I could see the need for 6. 4 for RaidZ, 1 for ssd and 1 for CD Rom.

Also no need for wifi/audio.
There is little sense (in a lot of cases) in having an internal CD/DVD-drive these days. I share a single external USB DVD-drive between 3 computers and it sees use maybe once a year.
 
FWIW the Zotac does have a sixth SATA port - eSATA.

Actually, judging on the photos it does have 6 SATA ports onboard, AND an eSATA port. Not sure why its specs says otherwise.

Gigabyte have an H55 board too with DDR3 support upto 8 GB and USB3, but fewer SATA ports.
 
zotac intel HTPC

This is what I put together for my HTPC a few years ago:

1 x APEX MI-008 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply
1 x ZOTAC GF9300-D-E LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9300 HDMI Wi-Fi Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
1 x Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor BX80571E5200
1 x A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model AD2U800B1G5-DRH
1 x LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH22NS30 - OEM
1 x Scythe S-FLEX SFF21D 120mm Case Fan
1 x SILVERSTONE NT07-775 90mm CPU Cooler

The idle of this PC is less than 40 watts. It's been a while since I've checked it but I believe it was ~32watts, not much more than my BSD server AT IDLE. Just thought you'd like to know.
 
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