Hi,
I am trying to build a small home server to use as an NAS, I want to put it on 24x7 so I do want the CPU to be as low power consuming as possible while having some power to get things done.
I had some research, the Celeron J1900 looks good, cause it is quad core, can go up to 2.4GHz(although kind of inflated), TDP is only 10W(I can build a fanless machine with this CPU).
However, since I want to have 4 SATA3 interfaces(to install 4 SATA3 HDD), there is probably only one choice: the supermicro X10SBA. Unfortunately if I want to buy one, the reseller in my region has to do a special order, making it very expansive and I need to wait for 3 weeks. Also I saw some people complaining about some issues that J1900 had with Linux systems. So I gave this one up.
Now I have ASUS H87I-PLUS in my sight, it has 6 SATA3 interfaces, quite expandable. Then I have to put a CPU on it. Unfortunately the desktop Celeron CPUs all have TDP~53W, which is much higher. I actually wanted to have a Celeron G1840T(TDP 35W), but seems "T" series is not sold to individual customers? I could not find them on any amazon/ebay.
The old Atom CPU is not even found in "CPU onboard" category...although they seem to have some new models coming out...
Could anyone suggest a solution to me?
Any help would be very much appreciated!