I recently ordered new hardware for my little file-serving, downloading and IRCing box. As the nature of this 'server' is to be always on and not demanding powerful hardware, I went for the following components:
- Intel Celeron 420 (1.6GHz, Single-Core, 35W power-consumption)
- ASUS P5B-VM Motherboard (5 SATA-ports, GBit ethernet, on-board VGA)
- Crucial 1GB DDR2-667
- Tyan Tiger motherboard
- 2x Pentium III 1GHz
- 2x 512MB SD-RAM
- 2x Adaptec 1210SA
- 1x Intel 1GBit Ethernet (eepro1000)
- ATI Radeon 8500
As you can see this box is optimized on low cost, low power consumption and replacing as many of the old parts as possible. At a total of 136 EUR (the CPU was only 35 EUR!) including shipping, I'm really satisfied. One additional Adaptec controller would've cost 50 EUR and would've added only 2 SATA ports, so this was probably the best solution. I still have 2 SATA ports unused on the mainboard and have 2 SATA-controllers lying around ready to be plugged in if even those will be used up. Finallly I have potential to grow my RAID even bigger. :-)
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