So I'm trying to come up with a way to make a server without laying out a lot more cash than I need. I have an old AMD 800MHz processor at home in an ATX board that hasn't been fired up in a while. I'm considering slapping it into a rack mount chassis with a cheapo video card, a gigabyte ethernet card, and my controller cards for my movie storage. I have a DS-1220 that currently contains 12 drives between 250GB and 500GB. Plan on swapping them for 1TB drives. I store mostly full length DVD quality rips and plan on beginning the HD stuff once I get home. Anyone see any problems I might run into? It currently runs off of my main computer that is about 4 years old. I don't think I've upgraded the chip since returning from my last Iraqi vacation. I don't plan to do a RAID and the 800 runs XP just fine. I really don't foresee it doing too much in the way of complicated programs - just basically manage the hard drives.
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