File Server Update

I received the drive cage and loved it so I ordered some more parts for my file server. In all this is what I have (drives were just ordered).

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+, Socket AM2
• G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
• ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 Motherboard
• MSI GeForce 7300LE 128MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCIe Video Card
• SYBA SD-CF-IDE-BR IDE to Compact Flash Adapter (Bracket Version)
• 3x SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B Black 5 Bay Hot-Swapable SATA HDD Enclosure
• 9x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB Hard Drives

I went ahead and bought a 9th hard drive so that the model and firmware would be the same if a drive happened to die. I am going to be doing a burnin on all the hardware when the drives arrive to make sure anything that is bad will fail so I can RMA it. I changed from Areca to Adaptec for my RAID card and they just sold out of the Adaptec. Hopefully the price will not go back to $500. After being formatted and put in a RAID6 array I will have 4.09TB of storage space.

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