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January 13, 2005
Home 1.624TB RAID I am already changing a few little things
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 | Corsair 4400C25 | $269 | Very fast at DDR466 |
| Motherboard | ASUS K8N-E Deluxe | $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.
Posted by Martin at January 13, 2005 10:54 PM
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