@ speculatrix thanks, I could choose a picopsu (may be 80w sufficient), but the supermicro mb has 12v DC input (4-pin), i.e., I can directly power the mb with a 4-pin power brick and find a way to power up the hdd. I thought I don't need a psu like picopsu! am I dump here? :shock: @ bastiaan thanks ...

I ordered supermicro X10SBA and I'll update you guys about performance. I need help for getting accessories power brick Can you suggest me one? I need to power up 4 x SATA drive and X10SBA has 4pin 12v DC input. RAM Can you suggest me a power efficient one? I'm thinking to go for 1 x 4GB RAM instead...

@piglover how does the X19SBA performs? I'm planing to get one and use it as my NAS (samba, torrenting) MB, I'll also use it as HTPC for playing 1080p videos. I may not need xmbc, if X19SBA does well with VLC then that's lot enough for my purpose. I'm bit worried about linux support as I'm planing t...