BN wrote:
> I am looking for a PC with a rack mount chassis that can handle 4 IDE or
> SATA drives internally with a CDROM and floppy. It should have or
> accommodate SATARAID or IDERAID (mainly for mirroring) (not software
> raid) and gigabit Ethernet. I intend to run SAMBA and postfix. Anything
> cheap would be ideal.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks

Rack mount [server oriented] with IDE or SATA [desktop oriented]?

It sounds like your building a server PRIMARILY so I'd suggest you use
SCSI disks or the Western Digital Raptor SATA drives. As some others
have already suggested, the V40z or V20z are great for this.

I don't suspect you'll find Sun producing *almost server grade*
hardware, which is what you are asking for by not using SCSI drives.


For the record, I am selling my previous workstation, a IBM
Intellistation which has rack mount rails available from IBM. It has
dual 2.0GHz Xeon processors and three (3) U160 SCSI drives on an LSI
MegaRAID Elite 1600. Very reasonable price.

Full details can be found here: http://home.cfl.rr.com/wesw



Wes W.