The question is as simple as the title, thanks to your recent videos I have decided to upgrade from the basic windows homegroup sharing and build my own NAS. I would like to go with a fairly cheap solution and prior to the release of AM1 I was looking at an FM2 or i3, but I am wondering what would be the best price/performance ratio solution.
More then fast enough, the real problem is the current crop's lack of SATA ports, most boards only have 2x SATA, only 2 boards have 4x, though you could get some PCIe controller cards and let Linux or FreeNAS handle the RAID controller portion. Hardware RAID controllers are a massive PITA if they fail, just let the OS handle it.
What I'm waiting for is those AMD 64-bit ARM Seattle Opteron A1100 server SoC system, those would be a nice competitor to Wendell's Atom Avaton based ASRock C2750D4I.
The Opteron A1100 will have 8x SATA, an 8x PCIe slot, support for 128Gb of ram and 8x 2Ghz ARM Cortex-A57 cores. Should be quite the little beast.
Well since I plan on running 4 drives and putting freeNAS on a flash drive for boot I should be set, although I may just save up for something better. For now I may just use my old dual core hyper threaded atom based DTX board I found in my parts drawer last week.