Motherboard for e6600 & video editing & raid?

[pgrogan]

I will be doing a system upgrade in the next month or so and I am looking for suggestions. I have pretty much decided on the following, unless someone can find a critical flaw or something that is significantly better.

Case: Antec P180
CPU: E6600
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12F
Hard Drives: 500GB Western Digital RE (will be buying at least 4-5 for a RAID 5 Config)
Video Card: ATI AIW...not certain which yet. But want the video capture thru S-Video capability.
RAM: Patriot 1GBx2 DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066
DVD/CD drive: I will be be pulling a couple of Lite-On DVD burners from older computer
Internal Hard Drive Enclosure: ICYDOCK MB455SPF...want the ability to take out a single drive and take it with me (with external case). Also like the idea of easily replacing a failed drive without having to open the case.

Questions that I have:

Power Supply....I like the modular idea, but I have heard bad things about the Antec NEO HE. I think Corsair makes a modular power supply. Any others? I'm probably looking at 550-600W for all the hardware I will have in this thing. I am looking for suggestions.

Motherboard: My last 3 builds have all been ASUS. So far, no major problems (that weren't user error). I am open to others, but I have had great experience with the ASUS boards. So I'd like to stick with em, but I have heard that there are some problems with the P5B boards...especially in the area of memory selection. The RAM I have chosen needs 2.3v, do the P5B boards do 2.5?
I need a board that will handle 5-6 SATA hard drives with RAID 5. Also want e-sata.

suggestions?

I'm not a big gamer, but I will be doing lots of video editing and compression.

TIA

 

[Plester]

Looks good. Badaxe or P5W for the mobo. You will want a hardware raid solution for raid5 - the ICH7 raid5 or any other 3rd party cheapo software based solution built into these boards does NOT cut the mustard. An Areca 1210 (4 SATA port) or 1220 (8 SATA port) PCIe is a great choice. Those RE2 drives are the best for what you are doing, get the Areca 1210 and 4 of the WDs and you will have a 1.5TB array and save $300 as opposed to getting the 1220 and 5 drives.

This Enhance 500w PSU is an outstanding power supply, super efficient and plenty powerful. Read this review of the same unit rebranded by Silverstone. JohhnyGuru is the definitive word on PSUs.