Here's my order from 12/08: P5QL P43 775 ATX Motherboard $99.99 (Open Box) Intel® Boxed Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 $143.96 RPC-450 4U Black Rackmount Case $99.99 Radeon X1550 512MB HyperMemory PCIe Low Profile Graphics Card $29.99
I threw 16GB of RAM in it, filled it with 500GB 7200rpm SATA drives, a 3Ware 9500S-8, and run all of my transcoding, encoding, VM's off of it. I know the parts can be had for much cheaper now too. ---- Julian On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]> wrote: > At $300+ for that? Lol, external multi-bay cases are way overpriced vs > standard pc cases that have more bays! Top it off it's not even native raid > but rather 2x port multipliers to a raid card in a PC. > > My thermaltake case for my workstation is 12 bays 5.25" and was cheaper > than > this external with the advantage that host pc also fits in. Add 4 of the > 3-> > 5 drive bay adapters it could hold 20 drives if you wanted but that gets > expensive fast @ $100/ea. >
