On 5/16/2014 11:09 AM, Joseph Hesse wrote: > The question in my mind is: should I just buy another workstation class > motherboard and duplicate what I already have or buy a motherboard which > is intended to be used as a server? I won't run a server that doesn't have ECC main memory. most desktop hardware doesn't support ECC. at home, Im using a HP MicroServer N40L for my public internet server (at a coloc site), I just picked up a HP DL180 G6 with 24gb ram, and 2 x Xeon X5650 cpus (6 cores each at 2.66ghz) and SAS2 raid with 14 3.5" SAS/SATA bays for $740 from ebay. At work, we paid $6500 each for a similarly configured machines about 3 years ago. this is a 2U rackmount server, and far too noisy for anywhere but in a rack in a data center... -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast