Recent content by davidgrove

Well, I've decided on using a Turion to get low power consumption (for 24/7 operation). There don't appear to be any 754 pin motherboards with gigE and 8 SATA headers. Most I could find is 6. There are two boards, one with VIA chipset, and the other with nForce3. I think I'll be using...

Thank you, pkrush, for your excellent help. DG

I appreciate all your comments and suggestions. I will be looking at a solution that involves installing a card with SATA headers or ports, as well as RyanVM's MSI board. But, does anyone know if there are other motherboards with 8 on-board SATA headers, that have less fancy (or none)...

Thank you for the suggestions. Thank you for identifying the "get a SATA card" option. How about Pentium M motherboards? Thinking of minimizing power consumption now (for 24x7 operation). I have never considered them before. If I relax the constraint of 8 on-board SATA ports (by...

I'd like to build a file (media) server. It will only be a server, so don't care about on-board audio and video. I would like onboard gigE (jumbo packet capable) on a separate bus from PCI. Would also like 8 SATA ports and 2 IDE ports. (I want to run Linux and do S/W RAID). I have...

Alms for the poor??

Folks, I was very interested in the 4PCA3+ to build a RAIDed (4 drive) Linux/Samba dedicated media server on a gigabit ethernet home LAN. Then I learned that this board doesn't use CSA. Might some knowledgable souls answer some questions for me, please? 1) Doesn't failure to use CSA mean...

Thank you for the suggestion, techfuzz. I think it's close, but not quite what I'm looking for. Wanting to build a media server. Would like to use RAID 5 or 3. Linux. The SATA drives just don't quite seem to be there in terms of capacity and price, yet. So, I'm planning on 250G IDE drives...

I was very interested to see that the VR-Zone review indicated the presence of CSA gigabit ethernet. But, then the seeming confirmation that it is not to be so. Does anyone know if there exists a motherboard with both CSA gigabit ethernet and 4 additional IDE (in addition to the usual primary...

If it works (I've never seen or examined one) this fanless, passive cooler might be attractive for reducing noise. http://www.ley-ecd.de/pkskks.htm