before i start i must say thanks to linus and your team for wonderfully informative videos.
im considering building a new seedbox for myself.
heres my current box
the photo is old
because the original PSU failed i rigged it with a minibox PSU
the hardware its using is a sans digital Raid tower
a banana pi m1
a minibox pico PSU 150.
two 4TB HDDs
one 1.5TB HDD (that's not connected)
im also using some case mount cables to give access to the needed ports on the pi.
the software im running is
the distro is simplenas (formerly called "bananas")
i have compiled a kernel to enable SATA PM support for the pi
and i am running r/rutorrent for the seed box
okay now to my goals.
like the above my concerns are as follows
in order of priority (most to least)
low power consumption of the system (the lower the better)
low cost
build quality needs to be decent
heres what i will be doing with the system (in order of occurrence, l most to least)
seeding torrents (currently a few a little over 1700)
downloading torrents
accessing the web UI, shares, and SSH from inside my network.
backing up files
accessing my shares, web UI outside my network.
i will not be using it as a plex server or doing any media streaming with it.
now i have no idea on where to start for my build so i need some advice
what hardware specs should i worry about for a seedbox. CPU speed, memory capacity, or somthing else. i searched but all i found were seedbox hosts/resellers.
a good CPU (not discontinued, because i buy my hardware form stores like microcenter, FRYs, and newegg.)
a good motherboard (not discontinued, because i buy my hardware form stores like microcenter, FRYs, and newegg.)
how much memory would be good, and too much.
i don't need advice on what memory to buy, or HDDs as i will be reusing my 4TB disks in this system.
no need for raid. as i'm not concerned with data corruption.