supermicro Atom home sever $300

[andrew911tt]

I am thinking about getting this for a home file server/media streamer.
I am not sure if I want to run WHS or W7.
Any thoughts or suggestion?

Also someone may what to put this in the deals section because it is a pretty good deal.

Combo deal $300

SUPERMICRO CSE-731i-300B Black Pedestal Server Case w/ 300W Power Supply 2 External 5.25" Drive Bays
SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SPA-H-O Mini ITX Intel Atom D510 processor Server Motherboard
Patriot 2GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB

 

[Dark Shade]

It would work fine as a small home media server, but streaming content may be a lot for the little Atom to handle if it's high-definition or anything close to it

 

[bastage]

I use an atom d510 to transcode and stream media daily. It is about 2x realtime up to dvd quality.
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[andrew911tt]

I would not be using it to trans-code. Just stream native files.

 

[Dangman]

Looks like a pretty decent server setup.

 

[bastage]

I would not be using it to trans-code. Just stream native files.

I don't think you would have an issue then.. The limiting factor would be more of your hard drives transfer rate followed by the Network itself.

Edit: & yea I jsut looked into the hardware there.. That is a hell of a deal infact..