5000$ or less and you are in business (Score 3, Interesting)

We just finished building a 2.5 TB (terabyte) server for less than 5000$. You could probably spend even less than that since we spend about 1000$ on two fiberoptic cards. We have 2 6 chanel 3ware RAID cards and 12 250 133ATA Maxtors hooked up to a 520 watt powersupply plus another 520 watt power supply acting as redudant power(we did that mod inhouse). 2.5 TB is probably more than you guys will need unless you are doing some advertising or something like that... so you could probably go for 1 TB, which will cut your costs down even more. So all in all you could probably get it done in about 3000$ not too shabby for 16 ppl. Our server backs up my whole college.