I don't think anyone even made mini-ITX Ontarios. Asus had one with a bunch of SATA ports, obviously made for home NAS builders. Then you had the ones made by vendors which are considerably less widely-distributed. The Asus at least, you could get pretty much anywhere. Oh, OK, my bad. I was looking...

Yeah, but the problem is I can't find a single Celeron for 1156 Then get a Pentium. There may not be have been 1156 Celerons. But I remember there were Pentiums. There were, they're just hard to find where I live nowadays. Same goes for Pentiums, I also looked for them. International postage costs ...

You want Enough horsepower to saturate or nearly saturate said GigE via Samba So you are not asking for something cheap and quiet, you ask for a "big bore V8 Hemi"-NAS. Have you considered how to silence two or more HDDs in any given PC case? Because that will be the main source of vibrations and t...

Way overkill. Get a Celeron instead. Yeah, but the problem is I can't find a single Celeron for 1156, I would have to import it and postage would make it more expensive than said i3. Same if I wanted to use 1155 boards - more expensive (I can have this 1156 Gigabyte for about $50 and 1155 boards ru...

Hello, I want to build a semi-poor man's NAS. I thought of several things and right now I'm thinking along the lines of: Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 or similar Cheapest used i3 I can find Cheapest used 2x2 GB RAM I can find Semi-decent case (I'd like to have space for at least two 3,5 disks there) The rea...