Old home file server died…

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BLsibub666

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And I’m looking to replace it. It was a dual p3 1ghz w/ onboard raid. I had 10 hard drives in there and one optical (just to make it easier to burn things from the server instead of over the network).

Now what I’m looking for is something to replace it, Ill probably get some 500gig HDs , toss it all in the old server case with my dual PSU set up. What I need help looking into is what barebones to put in there, granted anything is an upgrade from the P3 2x 1ghz (for the moment many of my drives are crammed into a dell taken off the road).

I’m not looking to break the bank, the system dose not have to do much just transfer files and stream over the network (usually just so I can watch video on my laptop while working). It doesn’t have to run anything but the OS. It would be nice if there was onboard raid so I don’t have to cram too many cards in there as well (I think Ill actually invest in sticking to raid 1 this time instead of just running the drives independently).

If you guys have any ideas where to start on this one please let me know I haven’t built a new system in a while and haven’t been keeping up with this.

Thank you

Lohne

And not that I need to say it to the moderator but feel free to move this if it shouldn’t be here, and thank you.
 
It kinda depends on what you want, personally i love asus a8n sli deluxe board in my file server. It has two 16x pci-e ports so finding compatible raid controllers was easy. Also it has 8 onboard sata ports which was very helpful before i got my raid controllers.
 
Im looking to spend a couple hundred, maybe 500 or so on mobo, cpu ram.

I havent used SATA all the drives i have now are ide so Im probably going to try to stick with that just so i can put the drives i have now back in (Ill probably keep my 250 and 300 gigs in there and anything smaller will get moved to a new drive)

on board lan is a great, onboard video is ok but not needed.

Thanks guys and Ill check out that asus mobo (I am a fan of asus)
 
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