[m_hatcher]

Guys & Gals,

I am currently in the planning stages of building a NAS for the same reason everyone else does so. In the past I built a server that was overkill for my needs and ended up getting rid of it.
I am looking for a mITX system that will allow me to start off with 4 HDD's and that is a complete motherboard/CPU solution. I found this
Motherboard
but I am concerned that for a media server and possibly? a torrent client that its single core will not be enough.

Anyone have any input?

[nokdim]

If all you are doing is NAS like FreeNAS or unRaid with a torrent client you will have no issues with performance even when its running a parity check. If you add things like SAB, CouchPotato, SickBeard, HeadPhones it will still work and you will not see any issues while streaming from the device as a SMB or NFS share but will take longer to unrar files than if you had more cpu.

[Dougie Fresh]

Just a quick scan of prices: a single-core G645 is $39.99 and a dual-core G1610 is $42.99. I don't see a compelling reason here to go for the single-core.

[m_hatcher]

Just a quick scan of prices: a single-core G645 is $39.99 and a dual-core G1610 is $42.99. I don't see a compelling reason here to go for the single-core.

I was hoping to just use a mITX board with either a AMD or Intel CPU such as the one I linked in my OP. I really dont want to spend 45 on the CPU and still need to purchase a board also. But again, I am asking for advice and if the dual core will be more suited for the price difference then I will go that direction.

[Dougie Fresh]

If you can find the ASUS C60M1-I motherboard, it'd make a really good NAS motherboard. I have the ASUS E35M1-I and it does a great job. The nice thing about the ASUS boards is 6 x SATA.

For just serving files, even the E-240 should be enough. It's all going to be about the NIC and the SATA controller.

Here's the ASUS C60M1-I at Amazon for $80: http://www.amazon.com/Asus-C60M1-I-SATA3...B007ZT1FAI (edit: bummer now out of stock!)

[m_hatcher]

It will be connected to a gigabit network and I will be using either OMV or Nas4Free to implement a software raid to stream bluray dumps that have large bit rates

I found this guy that is pretty much the same as the OP board but dual core..

Motherboard

[LUNITiCLIZARD]

What CPU did you end up getting? And how is it working for you?

I am currently researching hardware options for a NAS build and found this thread while searching for some opinions on dual core versus single core. I am mostly concerned with power. As a previous poster stated there is not much difference in price, but there's usually a difference in power, and I want it low because this will be on almost all day.

Any thoughts on under-clocking a dual core?

[Dougie Fresh]

If you got a G1610 with a ASUS P8H77-I you could underclock it. You can reduce the multiplier on the non-K parts even with an Hxx chipset. When idle, it's going to be very low power but this also depends on the PSU and how many drives you have too.