Comments on simple, cheap FreeNAS build?

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holzmann

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Mobo: MSI 880GM-E43 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Socket AM3
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
USB Drive (To run FreeNAS): Patriot Xporter XT Boost 4GB Flash Drive
HDD (RAID 1): 2x Western Digital AV-GP WD20EURS 2TB SATA 3.0Gb/s
HDD (RAID 0): 2x WD 500Gb 7200rpm (pulled from old machine)

Price is around $400.
 
Why not get a HP MicroServer instead? it's a great little unit that actually handles itself quite well against the likes of the Iomega IX4-200D (it performs better and is cheaper).
 
The Athlon II X2 is much faster than the HP Microserver processor, about the only think you loose is the ability to use ECC memory.
 
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