hi i am thinking about building a nas and have seen the Amd Am1 processors on newegg i was looking at the 2 ghz version i like the low cost and also the low power consumption of 25 watts i have no experience with a nas though so i am was wanting to see if anyone has any experience with these and if it would be sufficient enough for a nas most likely will run freenas on it any input would be appreciated
I think even the lowest dual core Sempron on AM1 can handle such a task with ease, if that's most of what you will be doing.
AM1 is quite a capable platform. It will easily do NAS tasks, (still using a slow as balls single core sempron in an older NAS)
As long as you do not plan on doing ZFS, its perfectly fine.
thanks guys for your input i think i will go with the am1