My old Core 2 Duo server from 2007 has been with me for a little too long now. Its an old workstation from a previous job. But I haven’t really found any alternatives that fit both my requirements and budget, until now.
My requirements were a passively cooled(low TDP) mITX board with an integrated CPU(with decent performance), at least 4 SATA ports, an HDMI port and DDR3 SO-DIMM slots. For no more than about 80 USD. Until Intel released the Bay Trail CPU family there was nothing that could fill those requirements. So when I saw that Asrock released their Q1900-ITX board, I ordered one.
Bleeding edge hardware and FreeBSD requires some tweaking though…
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