RubberBroke

Thanks again garycase. I just ordered the Corsair HX750. A little extra power can always come in handy. [emoji16]

Yes & No While 600 watts should be enough for 9 3.5" drives plus a half dozen laptop units, I do NOT recommend the CX series supplies. It will probably work, but I've seen many cases where there were issues with CX series units on the Core series CPUs. Corsair is a good brand, but I only recommend the TX series and above units (TX, HX, AX, etc.). One other thought on your proposed build: You're planning to use 6 laptop drives with a total storage capacity of 3TB ... I'd suggest you simply add an additional 3 or 4 TB drive instead. Much more power efficient; saves 5 SATA ports (probably eliminates the need for the 2 extra SIL3132 cards; and your system will have MUCH better parity check and drive rebuild speeds. Thanks for the quick reply Garycase. On your advice I will not be buying the CX600 or the SIL3132 cards. Now thinking Seasonic but I've read a lot of horror stories of sub quality cables and extreme noise on Newegg. In the end I'll probably go Corsair or Antec maybe. Since I'm configuring the server to eventually hold 14 Green + 1 Red + 1 SSD should I get a 750 Watt or should I just stick with the 600 Watts ? The laptop drives have been extracted from Trancend USB Cases and will be sitting around doing nothing once my server is up and running so I figured I'd just use them in the interim. Will have to see where else they can be used.

Hi, After lurking here for about a year I'm finally in the final stages of my server design and purchases Operating Environment: Antec 1200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129100&cm_re=antec_twelve_hundred-_-11-129-100-_-Product Rosewill 4x3 Hotswap x 4 (Specifically for 2.5 HDD support and better pricing) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132037&cm_re=rosewill_hotswap-_-16-132-037-_-Product Mobo - Intel DH55TC (Old HTPC repurposed) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121394 CPU - Intel Core i5-650 (Old HTPC repurposed) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115220 SATA Controller - Supermicro SAS2LP-MV8 x 1 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5EM2JS7184&cm_re=supermicro_sas2lp-_-16-101-792-_-Product SATA Controller - Monoprice SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132) x 2 http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040702&p_id=2530&seq=1&format=2 HDD - WD 4TB Red x 1 (Parity) HDD - WD 3TB Green x 4 HDD - WD 4TB Green x 4 HDD - WD 500GB x 6 (Laptop 2.5 Drives) SSD - Samsung EVO 500GB x 1 (Cache) So my question is whether the Corsair CX600 will be enough ? as I have an option to get it cheap at the moment. (Used) Corsair CX600 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028&cm_re=cx600-_-17-139-028-_-Product