One problem... (Score 1)

The only thing I haven't seen anyone post about are power cables. I recently built a 1 TB server. It ended up costing about $3500. The problem I ran into was that while I had plenty of space in the Antec SX1240 Full tower case I bought, the power supply only has 6 power connectors. I'm currently in the process of figure out a solution, one of which is buy a second power supply and just use the extra connections on it. That will teach me to work without a checklist. Another issue to worry about are IRQ's. If your going to put 4 IDE add-in cards in there you'll probably get some overlapping (with windows at least). The solution I opted for was buying one of the relatively new abit boards that has 4 IDE controllers on it and one IDE add-in card.