Lian Li PC-Q08, Zotac NM10-B-E DTX, Windows Home Server Build

A Windows Home Server build using the Lian Li PC-Q08B case and a Zotac NM10-B-E DTX Atom motherboard.
The case is fantastic, for its small size it has a lot to offer. It has 6x 3.5" HDDs, 1x 2.5" HDD and 1x optical drive bay. It takes a normal sized PSU and is completely made from aluminium.
The motherboard has 6 sata ports and is DTX sized, it has a D510 Dual Core Atom processor with hyper-threading.
Corrections: The front fan is easily removed, it just pops out sideways when you pull it.

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[pjstasyna1]

make sure you disable park times on those green drives otherwise they will wear out in 8 months instead of 8 yrs... and whoever makes a comment about performance obviously doesnt know what a server is.... morons

[Ratti3]

@pjstasyna1 Thanks for mentioning the WD Idle fix, I already have done it. Anyone running Server 2003 or XP and maybe Linux should Google WDIDLE3.EXE, it will save your Western Digital Green Drives.

[Iknowmorethanmost]

What about performance ?!? There's 1000+ videos of people with homebuilds, its not interesting...

[Ratti3]

@Iknowmorethanmost, it's effectively being used as a NAS box, my 100mbit ethernet LAN gets max out when I'm doing a transfer. So when I'm watching movies on my HTPC which is Wireless N there are no problems.

Internal transfer rates are about 50-70 MBytes a sec, I'm using "Green" drives.

[Primeee3]

@Iknowmorethanmost You clearly don't know what a server is used for

[pjstasyna1]

i also own this case, its decent enough i have a 4 port sata setup and pcix4 with 4 more ports... so 6 internal and 2 nas external... 14 drives total. works perfect for htpc and archving use especially the encrypted external nas

[xerxes278]

@Iknowmorethanmost if i bought it i will post a vid with it gtx 480 blabla so on :D

[vlamnire]

Since there's a vent on the right side, I would have flipped the PSU around. If it was possible.

[Ratti3]

@techassault I looked into various other things but I prefer WHS v1 drive pool and file level replication, I do not like WHS v2 as it requires RAID. And I don't trust open source programs with my valuable data!

[techassault]

@Ratti3 Ahh I see, well either way very nice build! :D That's one good looking WHS. Have you ever tried FreeNAS or anything like that?