said by MacGyver:The network management apps you want to run, are they Windows based?
Not necessarily. The box will be used to serve files, stream video to the XBMC running on my RasPi up at the television, also I'd like to use it for backups for the other PCs (four total).
said by aguen:How many hard disk drives will you be using in the box? Will they be Green drives?
My current ITX box has three hard drives, I don't think any of them are green, totals about 5 TB of space.
said by aguen:When you say "doesn't need a fan", do you mean case fans only or are you also including CPU/GPU fans? What kind of an environment will this PC/Server be living in?
Yeah, the motherboard stuff (CPU, chipset) would be great if they didn't need a fan. I've spent money on supposedly "good" fans and have them get a noisy bearing after a year or so. Fanless would be good. The box sits in my basement, near my punch down rack, ambient is rarely above 70 F.