Well can you attach it when you fill the 250 characters?
zlatko
Yes, in fact! Two main reasons.
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I wanted low-power, this is mostly gonna sit in the closet and serve files around. Even ARM CPUs like the RasPi can do that. But I didn't want it to be too weak, in case I wanted a simple service or two, this still has extra oomph. This isn't too powerful, but it is a 64-bit x86 CPU.
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I also wanted some ports. This has 4 SATA ports. It's supposed to be a NAS. It has a Gbit ethernet - I don't have a Gbit network at home so this is good enough for now, and I can expand it somewhat. It has USBs, expansion slots etc.
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those two combined resulted in a few selections, AsRock's mini-ITX boards with integrated CPUs are quite good choices in this space.
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I wanted low power consumption. I could have gone with a slightly stronger J5040-ITX perhaps, but it's also using just slightly more power.
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it's also cheaper, the mobo with the CPU cost me 120€. The j5040 I mentioned would be a bit more - not a lot but still noticable.
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I wanted silent, and this board and CPU is passively cooled. If I had money, I would get SSDs for storage as well (less power, less noise) but it's a LOT more expensive.
I know there are other CPUs in this space but in the end you have to pick one so I did.
Thanks! I ordered a SATA SSD already, and I did plan to read about the E key slot later, but for now I'm good. The board has 4 SATA slots, so I will either have to have an USB OS disk or an adapter like this, but for now I'll just go with what I know.
Do you know what are the speeds like on that Sintech or similar adapter? I don't really need NVMe speeds, it's a simple OS disk, but I wouldn't like to go down to something bellow regular SSD speeds.
Well, look at these few things:
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Modern CPUs, even Celerons, are powerful. People are driving a lot of workload even on ARM CPUs, and this is a proper 4-core x64 CPU. I mean, look at your phone, it's most likely doing a lot of full-hd media, right? And it's doing just fine.
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Most commercially-available Home/Small Office NAS systems, by Synology, Asustor, QNAP and others, they have either CPUs in this class, or weaker, ARM CPUs. I'm not gonna be sitting at this box. I have 3 desktops and 3 laptops around the house for work - this is gonna be mostly storage.
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My planned media management workload is a bit different than media processing. I mostly want to serve files around, maybe transcode something in the background. I don't plan to watch movies off of this (yet). I have a 4-core Hetzner VPS that is similar in power to this, and it's driving something like 4-5 docker containers and still serving all the files.
I think it's gonna be fine, but we shall see.
Are you sure? I mean the axe is a nice touch but did you edit the buffer before you smashed the PC?