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    Building Small Form Factor NAS

    Ended up ordering parts today. My final component choices are: CPU: Intel i3-2100 Mobo: ASRock H67M-ITX LGA 1155 RAM: 16GB G.Skill Ares DDR3 1333 HDD: (x2) 2TB Samsung F4 HD204UI Case: APEX MI-008 PSU: picoPSU-120W + 102W Adapter Case Fan: Nexus 80mm and planning to installed...
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    Building Small Form Factor NAS

    Well I've done a lot more research and have decided a picoPSU is definitely worth it. Not only will it take less space than the stock PSU, allowing me to use a larger HSF, but will also help with airflow in such a tightly packed case. As for power efficiency I've seen insanely low consumption...
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    Building Small Form Factor NAS

    Are you familiar with/have any experience with PicoPSUs at all? I've heard great things about them and keep seeing a lot of mITX builds that use them, but I have a couple questions about them (primarily concerning power requirements). Can you please explain how the dual NICs would be...
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    Building Small Form Factor NAS

    Recently I've been looking to build my own small form factor PC that I plan to run FreeNAS on. My primary use for the NAS will media streaming (HD) as well as Usenet downloading (SABnzbd+ and Sickbeard). I'm also hoping to set up a VPN on this SFF. I've built many gaming PCs but am relatively...
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