On Thursday 12 January 2006 14:03, Troy Engel wrote: > To give you an idea of where I'm starting to look, take a gander at this > page: > > http://www.serversdirect.com/system_dept.asp?dept_id=SD-043 > > Obviously we'd like to keep the price low, but realize that a major cost > will be the 400GB drives. We may only start with 4 or 5 of them and add > more as time goes (LVM), depends on how the costs break down. We've even > looked at a Dell 2850 as an option, fyi. i just got one of these http://www.visionman.com/prodlandings/product.php?prod=NAS-4U20HS200 another option they have is http://www.visionman.com/prodlandings/product.php?prod=NAS-3U16HS100 the 3ware controllers are supported i ended up using a mixture of raid 5 raid 50 and raid 1 in my setup. i used the hardware raid so i get the hot swapability. the server has 3 power supplies im very happy with it so far Dennis