Cheap Hardware for Home Network

[Andrew P.]

On 10/10/05, Live-Wire <livewire at echotrace.com> wrote:
> Andrew P. wrote:
>
> >On 10/9/05, Live-Wire <livewire at echotrace.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on
> >>my home network; dns, qmail,
> >>apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services,
> >>like apache, will also be exposed to
> >>the internet, but only for the use of friends and family. And most
> >>important, I'm doing this all on the cheap -
> >>for less than$600 (and the less, the better). I was wondering what sort
> >>of hardware setups people could
> >>recommend? Priceis the #1 consideration, followed by reliability, then
> >>speed. But that doesn't mean
> >>I want to neglect the latter two- what sort of specs should I be
> >>shooting for? What is necessary for the kind
> >>of activities I want to do.
> >>
> >>I'm hellbent on AMD, and the Sempron 3100+ (754) is looking pretty
> >>sharp. I have a GeForce4 Ti 4600 lying
> >>around that I can stick in, but because I want to use 2 SATA 150
> >>hardrives in RAID 1, finding an AGP 4X
> >>mobo with 754 and SATA w/ RAID 1 is neigh impossible. So it looks like
> >>my best bet is to find
> >>a mobo with onboard gigabit ethernet, video, and sound (only the first
> >>of which is important), but that still
> >>limits me apropos the 754 cpu and the SATA.
> >>
> >>So again, this is a nice opportunity to buy hardware specifically
> >>tailored for what I am using it for - I have zero
> >>concern for expandability. What is the best fit?
> >>
> >>Thanks -
> >>JNK
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> >
> >I have Gigabyte K8VT800 Pro motherboard
> >(http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-K8VT800%20Pro.htm)
> >and Sempron 2500+ (256Kb cache, 64-bit, SSE3)
> >on my file-server. For me - it's a wonderful combination.
> >With an updated BIOS firmware it supports up to
> >10 disk devices (8 IDE + 2 SATA), Gigabit
> >network and is rock-solid. I run FreeBSD/i386 on
> >it, but I tried amd64 before - and it works great.
> >
> >It's quite cheap ($60 for the board, $60 for the
> >box version of the CPU), and it certainly rocks,
> >believe me. BTW, it should support your Ti
> >4600!
> >
> >
> >Cheerz,
> >Andrew P.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Thanks Andrew, but just one question: the specs claim only to have 4 IDE
> slots in addition to the 2 SATA,
> not 8. Am I looking at the same thing as you?
>
> Thanks,
> JNK
>

4 IDE slots allow for up to 8 devices, 2 SATA slots allow
2 devices, that sums up to 10.


Have a nice day,
Andrew P.