we scored some parts off of Craigslist and Freecycle to enhance our server.

2x 256MB (FreeCycle) PC-133

40MB/s U-Wide SCSI Card (PCI) with REAL hardware RAID (battery-backed 64MB Cache) with two controller chips. External SCSI and Internal SCSI. This also came with a 120GB Tape drive (used) but we also bought 5 120GB Tape cartridges. This cost us $50 on craigslist

32MB Diamond ATI RageGL AGP 4x Video card (SDRAM) on an AGP 8x Slot (freecycle, from same guy as RAM)

40GB NIB ATA/133 Harddrive ($10) (Craigslist)

DVD-+RW DL. ATA/100 and 56x CD-RW (craigslist $20 for the pair)

ATX Case (generic) it looks like it had a computer in it built by CTG Computer Consultants. (freecycle, we put out a request )

So far, these are the computer specs:

750MHz AMD Duron w/ 256K L2 Cache on 133Mhz FSB

512MB SDRAM @ 133Mhz (this has some odd timing on the board. Almost different than the CPU Multiplier)

Micron-PC Logic board with 6 PCI Slots and AGP 4x

32MB Diamond AGP 4x RageGL Video card

RoseWill PCI SATA FAKE RAID card (using softare RAID under the OS) w/ 2 SATA Connectors

2x 1TB 7200RPM harddrives (Hitachi) w/ 32MB DDR2 Cache SATA

40GB ATA/100 harddrive for Boot

PCI RealTek 1000Mbps Ethernet Card

PCI RealTek 100Mbps Ethernet Card

LG DVD-+RW DL

56x CD-RW

Loaded to the gills with Fans (6 at minimum)

750 Watt PSU with 4 SATA Power Connectors and 12x Molex (2 of them for small drives (Micro-Molex)

SCSI with Hardware RAID. 40MB/s. 64MB Battery-backed cache. PCI

120GB SCSI Tape Drive

Generic ATX Case Full Tower

and best of all...

Ubuntu 7.10 Server (will be Ubuntu 8 after I get done with all the updates)

LAMP and SMB File Sharing

Software RAID on the Terabyte drives

Whatcha think?