I haven't build something in a super long time, and I have had 5TBs of hard drives collecting dust. So I've decided to buy a small AMD APU board and make a little server for my house.
ASUS Mobo, with a 1GHz dual core AMD APU
8GBs of G.Skill RAM (it's cheap these days so why not? lol)
Some random 1Gbit NIC so I can use this as a firewall
5TBs across 5 drives, all Samsung Spinpoint F3s
SanDisk 32GB SSD as the boot drive
Antec 650W PSU (over kill, had it laying around)
I'm going to make a custom enclosure for it, working on bits in SketchUp right now.
I'll be cutting this piece out ina little bit and post that up. I have to say, using Dropbox with my phone makes this process wayyyyyy easier! "Back in the day" I had to take the pics on my FD-Mavica, transfer to the PC, upload, then post. Now I take the picture, and link it... Awesome!
-CollinstheClown