Building a file server for home

[Matthew D. Fuller]

Just for a few other random ideas...

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:16:40PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Dan Langille, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I was recently told about Lian Lia cases, which I think are great.

Lian Li are nice cases.  I had one around my previous workstation and
had no real complaints.  However, my current (and preferred) is an
older version of CalPC's full tower case:
<http://www.calpc.com/catalog/full_tower.html>.  It's big, it's heavy,
it's steel, it's spacious, it's not excessively pretty...   but it's
solid.  My drives aren't in hot-swap racks, I use some of the (again
CalPC) 2-bay/3-drive bay coolers with 80mm fans on the front.  They
also have 3-bay/5-drive coolers that will take 120mm fans that aren't
listed on their website; I'd prefer that for more air and lower noise,
I just had these 2-bay on hand (I've been using gobs of them for more
than 10 years; cool drives are happy drives!).  Tell 'em I sent you;
it won't do any good, but maybe it'll get me a few bucks off next time
I order stuff   8-}

>     2. Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W PSU $80

I always just reflexively buy PC Power & Cooling power supplies.  The
Silencer 610
<http://www.pcpower.com/power-supply/silencer-610-eps12v.html> would
be the equivalent to your choice there.  Probably costs a few bucks
more.  They put out lots of very well-regulated power, age well,
they're quiet sound-wise, and (important to those of us who play with
MHz that aren't in a computer) quiet RF-wise too.  I don't actually
know how the Antec compares in output cleanliness; maybe it's as good.


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