hardware for home use large storage

[Dan Langille]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote:
>> After creating three different system configurations (Athena,
>> Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro
>> setup:
>>
>>     1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)
>>     2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping)
>>     3. LSI SAS 3081E-R $235
>>     4. SATA cables $60
>>     5. Crucial 3×2G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping)
>>     6. Xeon W3520 $310
>>
>> Total price with shipping $1560
>>
>> Details and links at http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/14/supermicro/
>>
>> I'll probably start with 5 HDD in the ZFS array, 2x gmirror'd drives
>> for the boot, and 1 optical drive (so 8 SATA ports).
> 
> That is f**king expensive for a home setup :)
> 
> I priced a decent ZFS PC for a small business and it was AUD$2500 
> including the disks (5x750Gb), case, PSU etc..

Yes, and this one doesn't yet have HDD.

Can you supply details of your system?