AMD AM1 5350 gone?

[Rainmaker]

I've been mulling over building a NAS (using FreeNAS). I have 2TB of space on iCloud but their Windows software is total junk, and I'm loathe to use another service like Google Drive when iCloud is so nicely baked into my other devices (iPhone, MacBook Pro, iPads etc). My home PC is running out of storage (100GB free of 2TB), but rather than add more drives and keep running servers (Plex, NZBGet, Sickbeard etc) on my power-hungry desktop I thought a FreeNAS would bridge the gap nicely. I could run FreeNAS for general storage, but with jails/addons for Plex, NZBGet/Sab, Sickbeard, and even Owncloud.

I'd always had a soft spot for the AM1 chips, especially the Athlon 5350 APU. For £60 you could buy the CPU and a decent motherboard, add in some RAM and a cheap mATX power supply and case, and for about £100 all in you were away. Crucially for FreeNAS (and openvpn etc), the AM1 chip supported AES-NI and also EEC RAM, despite only costing £30!

Last night I was happily speccing up a mini build with a couple of 4TB WD Reds, but then realised OcUK (and others) no longer sell the AM1 chips. I know Zen will bring newer APUs of this type at the end of this year / next year, but that's no use to me at this moment. I've looked at some of the other similar chips in the same price bracket, eg Kaveri, but they don't support AES-NI or EEC memory.

So does anyone know what happened to AM1, and whether there's a replacement class of chips with the same price/functionality - available now - that I have overlooked? Yes I could buy a 'better' CPU but something like an i3 is way more expensive, and the lower end Intel chips don't support AES-NI or EEC. The mighty little 5350 stood in a (cheap) class of its own.

TIA.

 

[Rainmaker]

Sadly AM1 has gone the way of the dodo, and not the cool one from the Warner brothers cartoons.

That's a shame. No comparable chips available atm then?

BTW it's ECC not EEC.

Ironically, I know... lol. Call it a brain fart while posting under barrage from a 2 year old and a 1 year old. We've been discussing Brexit today, so my brain **** its pants and transposed it lol.

 

[Rainmaker]

Look for the Sempron 3850.

Edit!!

Also does Bristol Ridge support ECC RAM??

Thanks! It only has a 1.3GHz clock (versus 2GHz for the 5350) but it should be enough.

 

[Rainmaker]

My 5350 build is for sale in the classifieds if you're interested, it's barely been used.

I was tempted but the sums don't add up for me mate, sorry. I'd have to get a different case (more than one hdd bay) as well as other stuff, so I'd effectively be buying it just for the CPU and mobo which puts them over what they cost new. Thanks anyway.

 

[Rainmaker]

To whomever Trusted me a link to buy one of these: I'm afraid I lost your email over the Christmas period and thus couldn't reply via email to thank you. The message was received and understood, however, so thanks.