Building new box: comments?

[Dan Langille]

I am considering building a new box for home use. It'll be used in my basement for storage and as a platform for working on my various projects. 

So far I have:

Here is what I’m thinking of getting:

SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-O ATX Server Motherboard : $224.99
AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz 8 x 512KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server : $259.99
Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1600 Server Memory : 4 x $59.99 = $239.96
PC Power and Cooling Silencer MK III 600W power supply : $99.99
SYBA SD-PEX40054 PCI-Express 2.0 x4 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) HyperDuo 4-port RAID Controller Card : 2 x $41.99 = $83.98
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB : 8 x $114.99 = $919.92
Western Digital WD Blue WD2500AAKX 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive : 2 x $49.99 = $99.98
LIAN LI PC-A70F USB3.0 Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case : $189.99

More information here: http://dan.langille.org/2012/11/02/designing-a-new-server

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Dan Langille
http://langille.org/