DanishGuy

micro-atx got no pre-installed CPU..? my hw site shows only 4 micro-atx with CPU.. And those are LGA775..

Its just lame.. yes.. any eta on lime servers to be in stock? And how about shipping? Whole world? or only US? Might be cheaper than assembling on my own as far as i can tell..

All Supermicro boards are server based. They are a server board manufacturer. Even their Atom line. Did you mean you can only find Extended ATX boards? yes. or.. 6 ATX boards and 2 extended. priced: 320-1000 dollars.. ^^

I see.. Well.. I might just be on the wrong track here.. Trying to make this as cheap as possible.. I really need quite some storage.. I ran into this thread on the forum: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7491.0 It seems to be fairly cheap.. Might consider it instead.

Can't find a single danish retailer.. And those boards i can find from Supermicro is server based - and expensive.. The Zotac seems to be a stupid choice after all.. - would have been perfect if it would just work, without having to hot-plug all those hard drives. So the gigabyte version is supported.. and seems like a fair choise.. Cons: only PCI expansion (for sata controller ofc), Fan cooled. Any controllers for PCI supporting more than 4 drives? maybe even 8? Pros: DDR2 ram (got those), cheap (~120$), 4 SATA + IDE, Atom D510. Asus: Cons: DDR3 needed, no IDE, slower CPU (Atom 330), Price (~170$) Pros: PCIe x16 Both should work with unraid.. But only gigabyte is tested.. @nia yeah definitely. Though right now the server would be placed in a small room beside my kitchen.. And noise wouldn't really be a problem

Also.. When reading about the zotach I stumbled across one telling this: "But you cannot use the 6 SATA on the Zotac as its RAID only not individual ports" source: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18121302 Another user on the Zotac forum wrote this: I've got the board running with unRAID and 6 drives for a few weeks now. The drives are accessible individually and are running fine. Problem is that the drives are not recognized after a cold start, neither by BIOS nor by OS. To be able to access the drives on the raid ports (3 to 6) I need to hot plug them after everything has powerd up. I guess there is something wrong with initializing the SATA-controller when the drives are connected. I hope this issue can be solved by a BIOS update, since this way the board is not really suitable for a NAS (WoL etc.). Could someone explain to me what it means to hot plug a disk? Need special hardware? Or just connecting it to SATA after boot? Sounds like a lot of trouble to get 2 extra ports dont you think ?

So i am trying to figure out which mobo to buy.. I am currently looking at mini-itx, mini-dtx and ION based ones. The boards should have: Integrated Atom processor and a PCI/PCIe expansion port. Integrated graphics. at least 4 onboard sata ports. here is what I've been looking at: ASUS AT3IONT-I http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=ZHofno9Kz03TkwXw ZOTAC NM10-DTX WiFi http://pden.zotac.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=210&category_id=108&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1 GA-D510UD http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3343 Now what should i settle for?.. Gigabyte: Not passive cooled. The gigabyte version is compatible and has a very low power usage.. But it only got PCI expansion port? Can i get any PCI card supporting more than 4 SATA drives? Zotac: Looks very nice! But i am not sure about power usage and if it supports unRaid? 6 SATA ports + 1x eSATA ?? - that rocks! Asus: I was settled on this one.. But it got a slower Atom processor than the others.. and it only supports DDR3 RAM - i got DDR2 laying around. PROS/CONS on each board? Zotac - Asus are priced the same here in Denmark. Gigabte is about 50 USD cheaper.