Bonz™

Actually a friend of mine made them for his hard drives, but didn't need them anymore. He made them some spare PSU wire and connectors. 1 Molex connector and 10 SATA power connectors. You can buy them and just crimp them on. These look easy.

http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g4/c...ors-Page1.html

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Kamakazi

What 4->3 adapter do you have up there in the 5.25s

Bonz™

It's the CoolerMaster cage:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817993002

It's cheap, and very effective. I put a Scythe Slipstream 110 in there and it keeps 4 TB like ice under load.

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TweiTwei

idk if somebody already stated this but
you can increase the time on windows server 2008 to 240 days
its realllly easy you just download this little workstation converter
it was amazing and after you do this imo windows server 2008 is the best os for gamers
has everything vista has except alll of the junk!

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Bonz™

Yea I downloaded this nice little app. But I got a free license for server 2008 though Dreamspark

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Manyak

So what else are you gonna be doing with this thing other than network file sharing?

http/dns cache? RIS? VPN?

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Bonz™

I actually have an Endian firewall that does HTTP proxy and cache and everything a UTM does. And I have a couple Dell Optiplex GX150's with P3's in them that do all my basic network functions. ie. DNS, DHCP, AD, VPN, etc.

This is pretty much strictly VM, Torrent box, and File server. I wanted to make it small because I bring it to LANs all the time to share stuffs.

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Manyak

Oh cool . You know I bet you could consolidate them all into one. Hell, if you've got a couple of P3s, just sell each one for like $50 each on craigslist or whatever and get a more powerful PC. You'll save some electricity that way!

You know what though, I don't think I'd ever trust security to open source software. ISA Server/Wingate Proxy ftw

Maybe you could help me though....what OS is your VPN machine running? Because Server 08 is not working out for me like Server 03 did. :/

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Bonz™

I'm running Server 03 on both my P3's. 1 does pretty much everything, while the other one is a Secondary DNS, Secondary DC, and sometimes a Shoutcast Server.

Currently I just use the standard dial-in VPN (LT2P I think) if I need to from work (which I hardly ever do) If I had the internet connection I'd use the Gw2Gw VPN on my Endian.

Edit: Yea I think I may consolidate them one day. I have a P4 and 2GB of RAM just laying here. If I ever turn this server into a full size again I'll have a Case/PSU and Mobo as well.

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Manyak

Yeah I guess there's a nice benefit to having a failover DC and DNS server in case you wanna mess around with or replace the first one, so your network doesn't go completely down.

But yeah VPN worked fine for me in Win03, but for some reason the certificates with Win08 don't want to play nice. Its as if they aren't doing anything at all, so I end up just connecting to the server but get no actual network/file access.

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