Low power cpu/motherboard that supports ECC? (re: fileserver)

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Right now I have a multi-purpose virtual machine/server that hosts my file server but I'm thinking about offloading that to a dedicated machine and running OpenFiler. (iSCSI, NFS, etc)

Are there any low power cpu/motherboards that support ECC RAM?

Ideally I'd like a small dual-core Intel Atom (which I think would be plenty powerful) but it looks like they don't support ECC.

Anybody know of anything else that will work?

I'm also open to a commercial solution but it would be a big change since I'm currently using a Dell PERC 6i filled with eight drives...
 
Or go AMD of course. Not like an Openfiler build needs lots of CPU power.
 
I actually have an AMD Opteron 165 and an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, but the motherboard doesn't support ECC and the Opteron 165 requires a lot of power... :(
 
If you wanted to go Intel, I would second Blue Fox's suggestion of a 3400 chipset board. The Supermicro X8SIL-F that I and a lot of other's run is pretty solid. Power consumption with a X3430 or X3440 will be near idle for Openfiler (X3440 was 48w on the X8SIL-F), but you are basically going to have a bunch of cores sitting idle/ off. The motherboard + a X3430 is going to run around $400 though and will be huge overkill.

The L3406 is going to save you a few watts but with Openfiler CPU utilization, it isn't going to be as big of a savings as if you were pegged at 80%.

I would still suggest and AMD platform that supports ECC unless you want IPMI 2.0 and KVM over IP in which case, Intel has many more options.
 
croakz said:
Doesn't sound like mobo size is an issue, but for a mini-ITX board that supports ECC I went with the KINO-780AM2.

http://www.ieiworld.com/product_gro...=09050652111816087425&id=09069696333360342284

Supports ECC and AM3 procs too, as I've had an AMD 4050e, 400e, and now a 605e in it. Also the PCIe supports RAID cards and I've tried it with an Areca 1680IX-24, Adaptec 31605, and an Areca 1260.
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Pretty cool little motherboard, but onboard Realtek NICs and it forces you to chose Intel NIC (up to 4 in a quad port card) or Raid controller since there's only one PCIe slot there. Then again, anything without an onboard Intel/Marvell NIC basically is going to take a power penalty from the add-in NIC.
 
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