> > I was thinking of along the lines of: > > * Intel 945G motherboard > > * LSI Megaraid SATA-6
Try and get a BBU for that MegaRAID card... MegaRAID SATA 150-6 will be happier on a PCI-X motherboard (this is _not_ the same thing as PCI-Express). (MegaRAID SATA 300-8x requires PCI-X). I've just noticed there is a new 4-lane PCI-Express SATA card listed on LSI's website: http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid_sata/megaraid_sata_300_8elp.html I don't know if Marco has seen one yet (or has a suitable motherboard to plug one into even). It may work easily (pci id change), or there may be more complicated things to do. > > * 512MB of RAM ...and be sure to split the disk into smaller partitions unless you want to buy more RAM, fsck will not be amusing otherwise. > And seriously, how does one manage to fill a TB of data? video, lossless-compressed music, backups from a bunch of machines, none of our business really (-:
