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Bought myself a new hdd and SATA backplane / 5 bay drive enclosure (link).
This now takes my unformatted total to 1.95TB of disks however due to RAID levels (almost all of my drives are redundant in RAID1 or RAID5) it is actually a usable space of about 1.3TB.
Anyhoo, heres some pics of my server with its new setup. Note, the piccies are taken on my phone so not great quality!
Full tower case showing SATA enclosure, DVD-RW and CR-RW bays.
Inside of server case. Note 2 6-Port SATA RAID controllers in the bottom left with
the massive bundle of red SATA cables leading up to the new drive enclosure.
Several more drives showing on the right hand side and lots of nicely tied cables!!
Doesnt it look pretty?! 
I have sound proofed the inside of the entire case. Same with my gaming machine.
Closeup of the enclosure. Only 4 drives in the bays at the moment. Ill be buying
a 5th to add to the MEDIA raid to take it to 1.1TB
Edited by Demonboy on 23 November 2006 at 11:20pm
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Very nice
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agreed, nice...you still wanna sell me that raid controller?
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aye, as soon as i get a replacement... probably a couple of months max
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Should show you some of the pics of my server box since I added 640Gig to it.
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im at a lowely 0.5tb at the moment, i want and need more!!!! so this is looking like an option :P
Nice D, i like it
stuart
*edit* spelling errors
Edited by Jaguar-infinity on 26 November 2006 at 12:53pm
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Any one measuring their drive space in TB must have some serious hardriveage, whats the rest of the rig like?
I'm running a fairly new rig atm
AMD X2 4400+
2x 1gb of G.skill ddr500
DFI Lanparty sli-d
XFX 7800 gt xt
Check out a vid of how to waste money on ur pc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLq6U_4UNL4 
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its just a file server so not major:
Athlon XP 2100+
1.5GB RAM
64MB Geforce 440
DFI Lanparty Mobo
My gamer is a bit better:
Athlon XP 3000+
1.5GB RAM
2x 80GB Seagate SATA (Striped)
128MB 6800GT GFX
My new PC im about to build will be:
Intel Core2 Duo E6600
2GB RAM
512MB 7800GT or similar
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Server:
AMD2000Xp
512mb ram
onboard sound
ATi9200 GFX
Gibabit network.
Demon why build up a machine now when the DX10 cards are just starting to come out?
and Quad cores are just around the corner.
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By soon i mean jan/feb, depends when i get my new telly and new car.
This is the telly i want:
KDL40W2000U - 40" Sony Bravia TV with HD1080 Resolution + Live Colour Creation
You can get em for £1500 now but i reckon that will be closer to £1200 by feb...
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did you know LG make the hardware in the Sony TV's? All sony do is change the system software, and sometimes stick on a new case
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I'm quite sure LG's XD Engine is the same as Bravia...need to research this a bit more.
Can't seem to find a price comparison either 
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froogle says that the LG with XD Engine II, 42 incher is £1200, which is £800 cheaper than the sony...Really need to find out if Bravia is just XD Engine rebranded...
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Bravia W series 40" is £1500 normally - its only £2k on sony site...
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Just bought myself 3x1TB new drives and put them in a RAID 5 array, heres my total storage now:
About 3TB of fully redundant storage...
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Sounds like the TV I've got, which is extremely good, so good choice. As for storage I've currently got around 1.5TB external on my laptop, which is more than enough. You must have a VERY big porn collection Demon.
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No, he keeps sending email through exchange to himself. With 1 GB attachments each, makes him feel less lonely ^^
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<l0nl0r... 
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