The board is mini-ITX so you can put it into quite a small case and it won't take up much room. Just be aware that performance will degrade. It's up to you if you decide to put a WLAN card in and shove the computer in a closet somewhere. Personally I'd recommend against putting a WLAN card in it because that's going to provide a huge bottleneck in streaming and transferring files. There's also gigabit LAN so there should be no problems with transfer speeds over the network for those large files. I don't know what the official maximum supported hard drive is on there, but two 1TB hard drives would be enough for most applications. It has 2 SATA ports which is enough for me. It's a Pineview Dual-core Intel Atom (with Hyperthreading) with a passive heat-sink. This also reduces the noise a bit too because you don't have as many fans whirring. Since the Pineview Atoms are low-power it makes sense to use a passive heat-sink on them. There's no nVidia based Pineview Atoms yet because of licensing disputes so if you want it to double as a HTPC you're going to be using more power. They're no longer a power hungry beast because of an old north-bridge that uses more power than the processor itself. I decided to go with one of the new “Pineview” Intel Atoms. Sure old Athlons have SATA support but other things like DDR1 RAM are hard to find and expensive now. Another factor was having something that's new enough to support some of the modern technologies. Sure you could buy an old cheap Athlon but they still use quite a bit of power (unless you under-volt/-clock it) and the performance wouldn't be so good at low clock speeds if you did want to do anything intensive. When it is downloading, it's not using much power either. So, what's in the box? I wanted something that's low-power because most of the time it's sitting idle. No Linux expertise is required, common sense is required, and being able to ask for help in a nice manner.
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I am assuming you know at least something about computers and how to install operating systems. This article is an instruction in what to look for in terms of hardware and then making it all work using Ubuntu Server and Deluge. I'm writing this guide as a starting point for anyone considering building a low-power low-budget torrent slave their home network.
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