Building a file server for home

[Dan Langille]

On Wed, February 10, 2010 10:05 pm, Dan Langille wrote:
> This is a continuation of a post I started in -stable.
> http://marc.info/?t=126560537900002&r=1&w=2
>
> I'm going to be running FreeBSD 8.x with RAIDZ.  Most of what I've
> decided upon / has been suggested is at
> http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/10/the-file-server/
>
> In short, I'm pretty much decided upon this case:
>
> * Athena Power CA-SWH01BH8 Pedestal case
>   * http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811192058
>   * contains 2 SATAx4 Hot-Swap HDD bays
>   * sounds like good value for a case with hot swap
>   * got a better case?
>
> Various suggestions have been made for the motherboard and HDD.  I'm
> asking you folks for suggestions based on what you know.
>
> Here's the list of items to be selected, but feel free to suggest stuff
> not listed:
>
>   * mother board
>   * power supply
>   * hard drives
>   * RAM
>   * perhaps a caching SSD
>
> If the motherboard lacks the SATA connections, I'm probably going to use
> the Syba PCI Express SATA II 4 x Ports RAID Controller Card SY-PEX40008:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Syba-Express-Ports-Controller-SY-PEX40008/dp/B002R0DZWQ/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1258452902&sr=1-22

The list is now:
http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/11/the-file-server-more-detail/

   1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)
   2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping)
   3. RocketRAID 2300 PCIe 4x SATA $20 (+$2 shipping)
   4. Crucial 3×2G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping)
   5. Xeon W3520 $310

Total price in cart: $1389.95 + $52.95 shipping = $1441.90

Not included: HDD, which will be my next task.

It's not looking like a simple home server any more.  What happened?  ;)

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Dan Langille -- http://langille.org/