Itx Nas/Server Build

dragon2611

Thinking of buying this board

http://asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I#Specifications

and this case.

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=452

Machines going to be a NAS but I also want the ability to run a few small VM's that mostly idle (E.g my seafile server)

Does anyone have any experience of the Asrock server boards? I know supermicro also do a C2750 based board but I don't believe it has the extra sata ports the Asrock has.

Any alternative I should be looking at?

Needs plenty of Sata ports and ideally IPMI with KVMoIP or at a minimum the ability to auto power-on when AC power is applied (I have an external KVMoIP if needed).

Also after a fairly low power usage on the board/cpu if possible as I suspect when fully populated the drives alone will be fairly power hungry I'd rather keep the total power usage as low as possible.

Not worried about H/W raid as I'd prefer to expose all the drives as JBOD and manage them in software.

TarZZ92

go for a powerfull dual core instead http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-intel-pdc-anniversary-bundle--includes-h81m-plus--intel-pdc-g3258--8gb-vengeance-memory--9MBS.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc product search&utm_campaign=Components and Storage - Motherboards and Processors - Motherboards

dragon2611

I'm more concerned with power draw then raw CPU power, also that board wouldn't fit in the case and only has 4 sata's meaning I'd need an additional sata/raid card for the remaining drive bays.