Low cost ITX Build - Recommendations Needed

[mstang1988]

My requirements:
ZFS with 1 disk failure (2 total disks totaling 2 to 4 TB usable)
ITX Form Factor
Low TDP and low noise
ECC RAM
Lowest cost for complete solution minus disks

Will be used as an offsite backup of my primary FreeNAS system for critical data (pictures) and a local backup for my parents data as well (pictures and music) which will be offsited to my ZFS system. My ZFS is ZFS 2 disk failure tolerant.

I have plenty of registered ECC RAM dimms (DDR3 and DDR4) sitting around that I can use for free. They are various speeds so I'm sure I'll have something that fits as long as it does not require SO-DIMM form factor.

Suggestions? Any better support of the AMD CPU's and ECC these days? It's been a while since I had a build.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Dell t20 or t30, hp ml10, Lenovo ts140

These are dirty cheap, support 4 drives usually and meet all the requirements if you just add a little ram.

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[ChriZ]

I doubt you will find a mini itx board which supports registered DIMMS.
Except from the Xeon-D series motherboards, but then, these are not cheap.

 

[mstang1988]

Hmm, perhaps I will have to think of an alternative. I can make my FreeNAS NAS the source of truth and get them a cheap NAS that doesn't have bitrot protection and always leverage my NAS as the source of truth. Any suggestions of low cost NAS solutions that work as a "redundancy" NAS offsite? It would be unlikely that I hit an ECC error on a remote NAS the same day that my NAS blows "dies".

 

[SweetAndLow]

Hmm, perhaps I will have to think of an alternative. I can make my Freenas NAS the source of truth and get them a cheap NAS that doesn't have bitrot protection and always leverage my NAS as the source of truth. Any suggestions of low cost NAS solutions that work as a "redudancy" NAS offsite? It would be unlikely that I hit an ECC error on a remote NAS the same day that my NAS blows "dies".

Are you just completely ignoring my suggestions? They are the cheapest things can get.

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[mstang1988]

Are you just completely ignoring my suggestions? They are the cheapest things can get.

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No but per my original requirements it must be a small form factor (ITX) offering and low TDP (hopefully in the range of the C2750's). From what I grock those solutions are a larger form factor and the 3220's etc are a higher TPD (around 35w vs. 10w). I do appreciate your feedback and follow-up on this thread.

 

[SweetAndLow]

No but per my original requirements it must be a small form factor (ITX) offering and low TDP (hopefully in the range of the C2750's). From what I grock those solutions are a larger form factor and the 3220's etc are a higher TPD (around 35w vs. 10w). I do appreciate your feedback and follow-up on this thread.

Power usage is exactly the same on almost all processors. It's idle power consumption that matters. Max tdp is a useless measurement.

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[Alecmascot]

I run two HP Microservers G7 N54L.
They take 4 drives, run EEC Ram and are low power and almost silent.
On Ebay in the UK at around £100 less disks.
Fits your needs perfectly

 

[mstang1988]

Power usage is exactly the same on almost all processors. It's idle power consumption that matters. Max tdp is a useless measurement.

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This is incorrect. Although this is the "system" view of power consumption IDLE TDP's are not all equal.
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/68797-intel-pentium-g3220-22nm-haswell/?page=8
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9185/intel-xeon-d-review-performance-per-watt-server-soc-champion/15
http://techreport.com/r.x/zacate-vs-atom/cine-power-idle.gif

To take it to the extreme the idle consumption of an arm on a raspberry pi is going to be lower than Intel offerings (ignoring things like Edison) by an order of magnitude.

I will look closer at the HP microservers.

 

[SweetAndLow]

This is incorrect. Although this is the "system" view of power consumption IDLE TDP's are not all equal.
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/68797-intel-pentium-g3220-22nm-haswell/?page=8
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9185/intel-xeon-d-review-performance-per-watt-server-soc-champion/15
http://techreport.com/r.x/zacate-vs-atom/cine-power-idle.gif

To take it to the extreme the idle consumption of an arm on a raspberry pi is going to be lower than Intel offerings (ignoring things like Edison) by an order of magnitude.

I will look closer at the HP microservers.

Yep you have the right idea.

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