Finally finished assembling my file server / mythtv backend.
- Case: Enermax cs10182
- 1 ePOWER ZU-550W power supply
- 5 case fans
- 1 IDE 80G hd
- 4 SATA 250G hd
- 2 SATA-II 500G hd
- 2 hauppauge dtv cards
- 1 highpoint RocketRAID 2300 PCI Express SATA II control card
- 1 P4 3GHz dual core
- 1 microATX ASUS mobo
I dual purpose the system for both backup and as a mythtv backend (thus the hauppauges), so that helped justify putting some money into it the hard drives. The case ended up being the thing that took the most time to find; I wanted it to have lots of space for drives (and fans), but be flexible to support different mobo sizes and be easy to work on, and to not cost an arm and a leg (it rang in at $86 - not bad). Cheaper than a used netapp anyway. ;-)
I was really impressed with how easily it all went together, especially the drives - they face outward from the case rather than parallel to it as usual. I did a pretty piss-poor cable routing job; the case actually does have a lot of handy clips and stuff for people less lazy than me.
The drives are all RAID-1 mirrored, with LVM and NFS, giving me a terabyte of fully redundant storage.
When I get some time, I plan on swapping out the ASUS motherboard with a full ATX one with more pci slots so I can add a third pcHDTV dtv card and more sata-II drives. Probably around that time I'll start swapping out the 250G drives with 750G ones.