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Now that WHS PP1 is out, can anyone shed some light into this?

I'm planning a build:
Seasonic 500W PSU
4x WD 1TB GP Drives
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342
2GB stick of DDR2 667

Would that be sufficient for WHS usage without any slowdowns? Yes, i would need a PCI SATA card- any suggestions?

Trying to make this low power as possible. I was also looking into getting an extender to play the media stored on this thing, does anyone have any experience with Sage for WHS? That would save me more hardware purchases... =)
 
WHS doesn't really need more than 512MB RAM but 1GB is plenty. 2GB is a lil overkill.
 
Goood build, the Atom seems to be a sweet spot for home WHS/FS applications. About the m-ITX, if you can mount in a normal ATX case, youll have more than enough expandability options for adding harddrives, as well as adequate space for air-flow/cooling. Those small ITX cases + 1 TB harddrives = heat
 
Not bent at all! :D

I do notice that it does not come with a HSF and also I'm assuming that it will be more power hungry. I am trying to go with low power components as this will be on 24/7 and energy in CA isn't cheap... :(

Xeno- I am planning to put it into an Antec 300, I hope I don't need to mod it too much to mount mini-ITX to ATX.

EDIT: NM just found out that mini-ITX will work just fine in an ATX case. :D
 
That is a curious question, does the standard ATX casse support mounting of an ITX board? If it did...that would be nice.
 
Trepidati0n said:
That is a curious question, does the standard ATX casse support mounting of an ITX board? If it did...that would be nice.
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It should, im about 99% certain the mini-ITX and micro-ITX can be mounted in an ATX chasis, they should be backwards compatible, as those are all under the ATX standard.
 
I know- was asking for suggestions- all the cards on Newegg seems to be of the SATA150 variety.
 
wpd7 said:
I know- was asking for suggestions- all the cards on Newegg seems to be of the SATA150 variety.
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Youre not really going to be able to drive all 4x drives at SATA2 3 gbps speeds. There are quite a few, affordable 4 port SATA 1 PCI cards on newegg that run ~20 bux and are solid cards (such as the SIL3114 chipset variety, if thats the correct number). Unless youre questioning a cheap card, I'd go for it, unless you want to drop closer to 100 for a 4 port SATA2 PCI card
 
In that case, I'm locking my build with:

Seasonic 500W 80% Efficiency PSU already have this
4x WD 1TB GP Drives already have them
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342&Tpk=BOXD945GCLF $76.87 ordered
1GB stick of DDR2 667 got one laying around
Antec 300 case $58.98 ordered

Anyone have any recommendations with the cheap SATA controller cards on Newegg? Otherwise I'll just pick a random cheap one and hope for the best.

Come to think of it, a little hesitant to spend almost the same amount for the controller card, since my costs for this build is relatively low... =)
 
Honestly before we recommend any more cards, how many drives are you thinking max, because eventually your bottleneck will be the PCI bus at some point. So you may want a pci express card
 
I have about 2.5 TB of data to backup right now. I choose WHS specifically for its ease of use to grow out your pool for a RAID like setup.

Especially since I will be running my iTunes storage out of this machine, I'm glad PP1 came out.

As for drives, as many as needed- but how many drives will max out the PCI bus? They are not going to be used simultaneously, just when data is being read or written, so I don't think that will be an issue...
 
I wouldnt put more than 4 on a single bus...i think pci bus speed is 266mb/s?
 
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