I can't afford it but I can dream:

[sylvar]

<td>1</td> <td>Network card</td> <td align="right">20.00</td> <td align="right">20.00</td>

A JBOD Server

Qty	Item	Unit Price	Extended Price
1	Full tower case	150.00	150.00
1	Athlon XP 2x00 and motherboard	150.00	150.00
1	512MB memory stick	40.00	40.00
1	Dual Channel ATA133 controller	25.00	25.00
8	160GB hard drives (total 1.28TB)	130.00	1040.00
TOTAL:			1425.00

Sure, I coulda stuck more hardware in there, but I'm a pragmatic dreamer. By the time I need larger disks, they'll be cheaper.

Comments

[foozini.livejournal.com]

Have you thought of putting in a 3ware IDE RAID card in this? If you are going to be putting so many IDE drives into a system, you may want to protect them a bit. 3ware makes some IDE RAID cards that will handle 8 or even 12 drives at a time.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

If I find a reason to do this at work, yeah.