an opteron or a p4/XEON(not performance wise) would likely be a better choice for 24/7 server useage than a standard athlon as they have stricter stability testing, and in a 24/7 peak CPU utilization enviroment that's important. again, I recomend a s939 opteron(likely a 170) w/ 2GB unregistered memory in your budget range, toss in around 4 74gb raptors for a nice raid array(remember the original development of the raptor was as an scsi substitute better bang/$ for low-end server)
A64 are not for server usage, get a xeon/opteron. Why are you actually getting a server? Also think about the uplink(connection to the internet) and storage(where is the server located?at your own house?) For the parts i'd say get a 15k SCSI drive, for the OS and a good scsi controller and you'd be fine. Nice list john but Im sure you can save money on it and spent it for other parts.. ie a scsi control. and harddrive for the OS. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816103333 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822141139 Edit: Sorry for the old bump, are you still going to buy a server Redcell?
RAID 0, i assume? RAID 1 wouldnt really work out. If you had two pairs of RAID 1, that would give you 148 GB of storage, not nearly enough for a server. Maybe 2 Raptors in RAID 0 and like a 300 GB Cavier?
the diference though is driver performance, and I as referng to raid 5 or 0 with as many as possible configured. drive speed is typically the bottle neck in servers. Raptors are still a fair mount cheaper than 10krpm or 15krapm SCSI yet they offer compareable performance..
you just owned an intel fanboy who dont really know whats he recommending. i knew intel fanboys was dumb but i dint expect this.
sorry, what i ment was get a bigger hardrive more space in te server cause... i know two people who have filled up a 300 gig hd on there pc with 'stuff' in two weeks