I am planning to build a small NAS for a friend and came across these two boards.

My friend wants NAS to consume the least amount of electricity and it has to be small (thinking PC-Q25B).

 

I am leaning towards C60M1-I because it uses less energy (9W vs 18W), fanless, 6 sata, and price.

 

E350M1/USB3 looks good too though because better CPU and USB 3.0..

 

My question is.. is C60M1-I powerful enough for sabnzbd & sickbeard?

I am not planning on doing any sort of transcoding.. I just need to get those two running.

 

Do I need to go with E350 to get that to work?

 

 

What do you guys recommend?

Your par/rar processing is going to be really slow on either board I'd think.

Your par/rar processing is going to be really slow on either board I'd think.

 

Man.. I was afraid this would be the answer.

 

Would I be better off going with this then?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131841

 

And probably going with Celeron G1610 since it's only $35 over at microcenter

Edit:

or this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116407

Hm.....

I will have to look and see if I can find some real numbers on the par/rar speeds.  But I'm happy with my C60M1-i.  I like that all of the ports are sata III and its super low watts. But really if you're just sitting there refreshing sabnzb looking at the screen waiting for a download, you're never going to notice.  I run sabnzb, sickbeard, xbmc, mysql for xbmc and myth backend, utorrent and was running tvheadend. It is able to stream multiple mkvs.  I even was running virtualbox but that was pushing it.

Something like these would work too:

 

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138368

 

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-7835-001R-C847MS-E33-Mainboard-mATX/dp/B00B4M33WA

 

 

About 25% faster than the E350 and 1w less TDP, and is 50% faster than the C-60. Only downside to them is they have only 4 SATA ports. However, a cheap $5-10 2 port SATA card will bring you up to the 6 ports of the AMD boards. The MSI board is nice because it has some decent expandability with a 16x PCIe slot and two PCI slots. It's also fanless like you mentioned.