Once I get some stuff sold off, I think my first purchase is going to be stuff for a file server. Not only am I running out of space on my own computer, but I fear for the health of my drives, considering how old and well-used they are. This way I can keep work stuff, compositions, music, and so on nice and safe :3
Bleep bleep bloop bleep
Liiiiiist.
Case: got it already, taken from Ryan c.c Thermaltake XaserIII (pronounced: [ˈoʊvə˞ˌkɪl]). Ah well. The reason I'm using it is that it has seven fucking fans, most of which hook into the PSU fairly directly, which seems like a safe bet to me. Gamer's case. Effin' huge.
Board: ASUS μATX / AM2 socket / DVI and VGA out / 6xUSB 2.0 / 10/100/1000 MBps ethernet / DDR2 800 max 8GB / RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD
Processor: AMD Sempron LE-1100 Sparta 1.9GHz / 256K cache
Memory: A-Data 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 800 SDRAM
Drives: Seagate Barracuda 40GB / I dunno / IDE (already have it); 2xSeagate Barracuda 500GB / 7200 RPM / SATA 3.0 GB/s
Price: $385.95 (newegg)
Setup: Debian Etch 64 (or whatever is newest) on the 40GB drive running all sorts of network daemons (Samba, Apache, SSHd, etc.) bridging network to wired/wireless router. /home mounted on RAID-1 array (pure mirroring, very safe) of the two 500GB disks. This means 500GB total. I can add another RAID-1 array with another couple of hyoooge disks at some later point if I need (if I get really into soundtrack stuff, or if I have lots of samples, or if I become independently wealthy).