Just found the pretty old Intel D201GLY2 before moving to a new house, I have to say this is really crappy compared to technologies nowadays, but it's still good as a cheap storage.The Intel D201GLY2 is a mini-ITX board, with Celeron 220 (1.2GHz) soldered, passively cooled, only 1GB DDR2 memory is supported! For linux based storage this won't be a big deal.
2 x SATA 1.5Gbps, not really a big issue for spinning HDD, my concern is more on capacity limit. Tried to hook up with 4TB drive, only 18xx GB recognized in BIOS, but....! Under linux it can be recognized and create single 4TB partition on the drive, bravo! So I can make a 4TB RAID mirror.
1 x PATA port.....pretty useless nowadays, but I can still make good use of it. Inside my drawer there are a few PATA drives (old laptop/desktop drives, ranged 40-320GB), I just hook up a 80GB PATA drive for transmission temp folder (the only way I can find them useful now) + 1 CF-IDE adaptor to put OMV system on (still remember 1 PATA port can hook 2 drives? )
The only problem is, onboard 10/100M LAN, luckily there is a free PCI slot, I can grab second hand PCI interface GbE LAN card to use on this machine, and it makes perfect sense now :DThe major purpose of this machine.....is a storage for my father's home, plus a remote backup for my own storage at home
As I already got some other old PSU/case at home, basically I just need to pay for a second hand PCI GbE and I can expect the old hardware piece is gonna work for another few year.