New Server Build - Blackstone

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Hey guys, I'm doing a new build but their something special about this- it's my first ever server build and so I've decided to go big (on a budget) or go home! I'm going to be just experimenting with server hardware and I thought this would be a fun and interesting entry into the catagory.

Here's the partslist thus far-

 

2x Intel Xeon X5550's @ 2.66/3.06GHz (ordered, shipped)

2x Cooler Master Hyper T2 Tower CPU Coolers

1x Foxconn Dual Socket LGA 1366 Motherboard (ordered, shipping)

4x Crucial 8GB DDR3 1066MHz ECC RAM

1x 120GB Kingston V100 SSD

2x 1TB Western Digital Blues

1x Logisys 4U E-ATX Server Case

 

I'm still undecided about what to do for the PSU, should I go redundant or a single ATX PSU?

 

Follow this topic if you're interested in where it's going!

[Dossium]

I personally would go bigger on the SSD. 120GBs really is not enough for a poweruser's system.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

I personally would go bigger on the SSD. 120GBs really is not enough for a poweruser's system.

The SSD I'm getting for 20$ off a friend so I'm not complaining, also this is gonna be for random experimentation and most likely not a dedicated machine doing crazy shit.

[Dossium]

The SSD I'm getting for 20$ off a friend so I'm not complaining, also this is gonna be for random experimentation and most likely not a dedicated machine doing crazy shit.

 

In that case, sounds good. The other thing maybe you know you can do is to change the location of the user folders to the WD drives.