Should I sell my fileserver?

[voodoochylde]

Howdy all, as none of you probably remember I recently got a 1990 Subaru Legacy. Great car and I absolutely love it. However, even with my JVC KD-G300 CD/MP3 player, I am *very* dissatisfied with the audio system.

Trying to decide if I should sell my fileserver either on here or just straight-up trade it on the forums at cardomain or caraudio...

Specs of the fileserver are
ECS 755-A2 motherboard (AGP, not PCI-E) with AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 754)
ThermalRight SLK948U HS w/Vantec Stealth 92MM fan
1x1024MB Corsair PC3200 Value Select RAM
1x40GB Western Digital 7200 RPM 2MB cache HDD
1x80GB Maxtor DiamondMax 7200 RPM 2MB cache HDD
ATI Radeon 7000 PCI video card
Antec SLK-3600BQE Case w/350 Watt PSU
Full Microsoft Wireless Elite desktop (kb/mouse)

Right now I don't have the capacity to save much money so this may be the only way I ditch the stock speakers...What do you guys/gals think?

 

[Red Dawn]

I'll give you $150 for it!

 

[fbrdphreak]

You won't be able to get too much for that and you'd probly have to part it. I say just wait for the speakers.

Make friends with someone at Best Buy. You can get a fully loaded system with four speakers, headunit, sub, & amp for like $500-600.

Sounds great in the back of my wagon

 

[Evadman]

80 + 40 GB does not a file server make. > 500 GB in some kind of redundant RAID makes a file server.

Just my .02

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Evadman
80 + 40 GB does not a file server make. > 500 GB in some kind of redundant RAID makes a file server.

Just my .02

Well, granted, he never said what kind of files. Maybe he deals in txt file warez......

 

[ballmode]

no

 

[BobDaMenkey]

That's a pretty weak file server man. Over kill on the proccy, and way to few gigs to make it a good file server. I'd keep it, and tough it out on the stock sound.

 

[imported_goku]

No.

Why are you dissatisfied with your car's sound system?

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Evadman
80 + 40 GB does not a file server make. > 500 GB in some kind of redundant RAID makes a file server.

Just my .02

No crap.

I'm now eyeing storage solutions that will give me at least 1.5TB in RAID 5.

 

[TechnoPro]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Evadman
80 + 40 GB does not a file server make. > 500 GB in some kind of redundant RAID makes a file server.

Just my .02

No crap.

I'm now eyeing storage solutions that will give me at least 1.5TB in RAID 5.

What kind of HDD configuration would that require?

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: TechnoPro

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Evadman
80 + 40 GB does not a file server make. > 500 GB in some kind of redundant RAID makes a file server.

Just my .02

No crap.

I'm now eyeing storage solutions that will give me at least 1.5TB in RAID 5.

What kind of HDD configuration would that require?

Uhh, 4x 500GB?

 

[TechnoPro]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: TechnoPro

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Evadman
80 + 40 GB does not a file server make. > 500 GB in some kind of redundant RAID makes a file server.

Just my .02

No crap.

I'm now eyeing storage solutions that will give me at least 1.5TB in RAID 5.

What kind of HDD configuration would that require?

Uhh, 4x 500GB?

Thanks... I just woke up...

 

[voodoochylde]

Yes, the processor is overkill and the storage sucks monkey balls. However, I only use it for incremental backups of my laptop and some browsing when I leave my lappy at mom's old house. I have yet to fill it up.

It started out (bear with me) as a Gateway 500S with an Intel D845GRG mobo, 2.0A Northwood P4, 256MB RAM and that old 40GB WD HDD. I added parts and added parts and eventually bought the ECS mobo and A64 proc for 120 at Outpost. Fit that all in the stock Gateway's case, then I bought a new case and transferred everything over along with the NEC DVD+-R/W. I just got the RAM upgrade from 512MB to 1GB about a month ago.

I have yet to get a single nibble on the forums over at cardomain so I think I agree with the general idea that I should keep it.

Oh well...guess it gives me time to decide what I want. Someday, I'm hoping for either an Adire Audio Brahma out back with 1500W and an Eclipse head unit up front pushing either a set of CDT HD-62's or...well...who knows. I'm seriously considering buying another ID10V3 or an IDMAX as the last ID10 I had was friggin' awesome, even when underpowered by 100W...