Home 1.624TB RAID I am already changing a few little things
Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.
I have found a few different parts and have put in the current prices that are actuals that I paid on-line tonight. It is coming in slightly cheaper (who coulda guessed). For data drives I stuck with the Maxtor Ultra 16 SATA drives. They are having a sale on them so they are cheaper than the 8MB buffer ones. The SATA technology has some stuff in it that really takes advantage of the larger buffer so it is worth it. Ebay had some sellers who might have been slightly cheaper on the Maxtor harddrives, but the auctions were ending in a week and I was worried about getting pirated or refurbished drives. Sticking with NewEgg is solid.
Home 1.624TB RAID Server
CPU
Athlon 3200+
$199
Frys 11x multiplier, should over clock to 2.6GHz easily
Memory 1GB
Very fast at DDR466
Motherboard
$149.99
Frys, 6 SATA RAID chips on Motherboard, 3GB memory. Anandtech complains about memory speed and the SiliconImage vs NVidia RAID controller when overclocking, but I am not going to.
Case
SUPERMICRO 4U Rackmount Chassis, Model “SC742T-550 Black”
$305
New Egg. Has 7 SATA backplane built in, redundant 550W
DVD+-RW drive
NEC 3520A
$62.99
newegg the newer model
system drive
WD740GD
$156
NewEgg. 74GB 10000 rpm system drive
Data drive
Maxtor Ultra16 SATA 250GB
$149.99
CompUSA ($.59/gig) could only buy 1 at this price
Data drive
Maxtor Ultra16 SATA 300GB
$194.49
NewEgg ($.65/gig) could buy 4 at this price
total: $2069.93. Price went up from this afternoon by $136 but capacity went up to 1.624. Now I am at $1.27/ gig for RAID!!! Can’t beat this!!! Let’s hope it all works.