Thanks everyone for your input, really appreciate it. Not to belabor the thread, but if I can get more input it might help me sort things out in my head.
The reason I was going with the mini-itx was because of power consumption. Just looked at the "Max TDP" of both boards..
Intel DQ77KB: 65W...
thanks, maybe I will give ZFS a shot, what OS are you using out of curiosity? FreeNAS?
I'm planning to run 4 or 5 VM's
Windows Server 2008 (or 2012)
Ubuntu (or some linux OS that I can run a LAMP stack on)
Windows 7 (for the infinitv)
FreeNAS
If i allocate 4GB for each of those, I'd be out of...
First, I just want to say this forum has helped me a lot in my research - never knew about it when I started, and signed up just to post this.
I think I've gotten as far as I can go in my research and now I need some help / suggestions. I want to build an ESXI box similar to PigLover's low...