Best MB/Processor for DIY NAS Server

i,m looking in building a nas and think this is the best combo

mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

cpu
65W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
45W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Thanks, did you consider the Athalon vs. Intel Core 2 Duo, or did you just prefer AMD in general?

That seems like a good MB without too much extra stuff that would need to be disabled in a server. I usually use ASUS mb's myself. Do you know if you get 16 (or at least 8) channels from the PCIe x16 slot if you use the on-board video, or will it compete for the same PCIe channels. I understand that some MB's that have 2 x16 slots will share the channels if you use both, so each get x8 electrically, but I don't know if the same need to share would apply to on-board video (which presumably uses PCIe).

Do you know if the onboard lan port does 1G w jumbo frames, or would you disable it and put in a lan card that did?

i believe Col-P-Todd chose that because its probably currently the lower TDP processor at a cheap price.

personally i would go with

e2160 $74
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=e2160

and i recently used this mainboard for a HTPC, but comes with everything that you will need for cheap

GIGABYTE GA-73PVM-S2 $73
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128088

Yes I chose that because ot the low power usage. since it will run 24/7 having a low power system will end up saving alot of money each year.

Not sure how many lanes it has but it does have 10/100/1000Mbps lan speeds.

intel also has some good cpu that with a TDP of 65W but they do not have a good chipset with onboard video, like the AMD 690

Wow Areca 1220 raid 6 overkill for a nas. If this is going into a large production area with over 100 users get a board with the ability to have lots of memory. A Cpu with the memory controller built in would be a plus.

For home I would do a nice little raid 5 setup with a cheap celeron and cheap board. Linux would be good here.

I was looking at this Jetway ITX.

JetWay J7F4K1G5D-PB
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16813153062

Supposed to be 25w for the whole board, plus your hard drives and ram of course.

Has dual gigabit and hardware mpeg2/4 decode/encryption

I planned to use part of the nas to offload the video files I'm storing now on my mythtv server, so I figured I needed a hw-based raid controller to get enough throughput for real-time video capture. I was also going to use it for other files that I'd like to protect against disk failure, but I was only going to do raid5 not 6.

you can get boards with the same chip set with a x4 and x16 pci-e slot for the same price
the x4 slot is good for a raid card and you can put a low end video card in the x16 slot.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

or a nforce board with tcp / ip offload and teaming.

nforce boards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...