A RAID data server (January 2006)

1. CASE: chenbro SR10769-BK: $151
2. POWER SUPPLY: MGE Vigor500 500W Power Supply with dual LED fans (Model "PSVG-500") $50
3. MB: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum ATX nForce3 Athlon 64 (Socket 939) ($148/106)
   or perhaps MSI K8N Neo Platinum ATX nForce3 Athlon 64 (Socket 754) ($103)
4. CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+: $190
5. BONDING: Arctic Silver Premium Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound: $8
6. MEM: (2) Kingston 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 : $55
7. RAID card: 3ware 9500S-8 $489
   vs.. 9500S -8MI (the latter also requires 2 special SATA multilane cables)
8. RAID cage (2): Chenbro Black, SATA Backplane (4*HDD), Model 84-210710-006 : $118
   (discarding the 3ware cage, since it requires 8 trays and also 2 xxx
9. DVD: NEC 16X double layer DVD+/-RW: $58
10. DISK boot: Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD800JD $59
11. DISK raid (8): Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model 6B300S0 @ $194
12. EXTRA COOLERS: (2) Xper Aluminum Hard Drive Cooler with two 60mm Cooling Fan, $10
13. VIDEO: Best Data GeForce4 MX440-8X Video Card, 64MB DDR, 128-bit, TV-Out, 8X AGP: $45

1. StorageExpert
2. serversdirect, e.g. SDR-5300T 5U
3. asacomputers, e.g. raid
4. coraid
5. aberdeeninc
6. infi-tech
7. a neat expensive case?
8. Western Scientific