Shuttle's $199 Linux PC (News.com)

Shuttle's $199 Linux PC (News.com)

Power consumption could be kind of high. I looked around a few months and couldn't find any mini-itx boards with 4 SATA ports but I looked again last night and found heaps of them. The amd/intel ones had base power consumption in the 60W or more but VIA have 2 new boards out, aimed partly at NAS. The faster one is

The slower one is fanless. They're cheaper than all the other boards I found and idle at 18W - suspend with wake-on-lan is 3W I think). Presumably you pay a penalty in terms of oomph but I just want a NAS and media streamer/player so I think I've found my board.