Low power mobo for NAS?

It looks like the motherboard for my NAS no longer works. I'm faced with finding a replacement.

The one I'm using now is an Intel Atom based (Intel BOXD525MW) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=

It's NLA so I'm wondering what is good replacement. Considerations include:

• Must run some variant of Linux - preferrably Debian
• Needs at least two SATA ports
• Ethernet - preferrably gigabit
• Uses Laptop RAM since I have that
• Has standard PSU connections since I just bought a new PSU.

Something that runs 32 bit Debian would be nice since I would not have to reinstall. Possible candidates (from a quick search on Newegg) include:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157458 (ASRock Atom based board - has everything byt Gigabit.)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135322 (Elitegroup VIA based board - has all but with lower performance than Atom - Passmark is 405 vs. 699 and uses different RAM but I think I have some around.) At $29 it seems to cheep to be real!
Or one from Ebay? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-D525M...US_Motherboard_CPU_Combos&hash=item2ed5b011f0

Another mobos I should be looking at? I thought that AMD had some low power processors but I'm not finding much with that.

Thanks for any suggestions

Edit: Maybe this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157518 (15 watt TDP but with 4 SATA III and some USB 3.0 ports.) Or this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157514 includes extra bus slots and USB 3.0

Kabini is pretty good. In my NAS I have Athlon 5150@2GHz undervolted what should give maybe 10W during work. You can find 4 SATA ITX mobos like this:
http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Pro...&cm_re=am1_motherboard-_-13-157-490-_-Product
It's offering higher performance than any Atom.
I didn't check max power usage but I don't think that Kabini is using that 15W as every AM1 APU has the same TDP what is impossible with core, clock and cache differences. It's probably max for the platform.

Woomack said:

Kabini is pretty good. ... It's offering higher performance than any Atom.

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No doubt. But I simply do not need power in this rig (even though having more power is very tempting. ) There is a price for the power at least at the time of purchase and likely down the road in a couple extra watts.

I checked a bunch of board and processor combos out and finally went with this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157494 ASRock Q1900-ITX

Should be more than adequate performance, has 4 SATA ports (2 SATA III) and uses laptop RAM (which is in my current build.) USB 3.0 which I may never use, but it's there. And gigabit Ethernet.

You may need CPU power for some system files. Celeron from these new series should be still much better option than Atom so I think it will be good enough for your needs, especially that you don't have to buy new memory.

The only thing I can spot is there's DVI-D on it, so a DVI-I cable with the four extra pins won't plug into it....not a big thing, but you'll need a monitor to load everything....just pointing that out so you're not struggling on day one.

Woomack said:

You may need CPU power for some system files.

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Diggrr said:

The only thing I can spot is there's DVI-D on it, so a DVI-I cable with the four extra pins won't plug into it....not a big thing, but you'll need a monitor to load everything....just pointing that out so you're not struggling on day one.

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Could be an issue depending on the monitor I plan to use for it. The sad part of this story is it may be connected to a 21" VGA CRT - now the only use for this bad boy from a previous age. And it will be running in text mode. For initial setup and installation (where I want it in a more convenient location) I will plug into a VGA port on one of my LCDs.

Most of the time it will operate headless and I will SSH in for any necessary maintenance.

I meant that ZFS or larger storage may use faster CPUs and more cores ( depends from RAID etc ).
I'm using AM1 quad core just because I had no idea what to do with it after tests and I didn't want to sell it cheap on auction. At the same clock it's also faster than AMD FX CPUs and it has real cores, not 2 thread modules.
These new Celerons are also good and higher clocked than last generation so I bet it will be perfect for your needs.