Funny I saw this thread, I'm looking at the same thing... my setup so far, which i believe would make a nice media server:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007ZT1FAI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005869J4O/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G0WPLK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
and 2x (I might swap this out for the samsung ultra low voltage ram):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VZL6WK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
and 2x (for the hard drive bays):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0039825LM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
This is $196 driveless. That little mini ITX motherboard has 6 6GB/s Sata ports too! The processor that is included is a duel-core 1.0ghz Atom processor than barely uses any power. Now, couple this with those new WD Red NAS drives that were recently annouced at (1TB at $109 a pop) and this is the route I'm going to share media throughout my household and back it up as well. I plan to get 2 2TB HDD's in a redundant RAID array to start.
I will be most likely running FreeNAS8 on this box, but it looks like in the 8.1 release, it will support being an iTunes server, which would be great.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007ZT1FAI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005869J4O/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G0WPLK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
and 2x (I might swap this out for the samsung ultra low voltage ram):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VZL6WK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
and 2x (for the hard drive bays):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0039825LM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
This is $196 driveless. That little mini ITX motherboard has 6 6GB/s Sata ports too! The processor that is included is a duel-core 1.0ghz Atom processor than barely uses any power. Now, couple this with those new WD Red NAS drives that were recently annouced at (1TB at $109 a pop) and this is the route I'm going to share media throughout my household and back it up as well. I plan to get 2 2TB HDD's in a redundant RAID array to start.
I will be most likely running FreeNAS8 on this box, but it looks like in the 8.1 release, it will support being an iTunes server, which would be great.
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