I've currently got about 10TB of storage and right now its hanging out in some drives in a Win7 box. Most of it is backed up to my parent's drive at their house but I'd like a little more data integrity and a chance to consolidate all my data in one box.

 

Given that my tax return is a month away I've been working out a budget for a starter server with room to grow. I'm figuring I can spare about $750 for this, maybe a bit more.

 

Right now I have:

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-530

Spare CPU I have kicking around $0

 

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182211

Its on the recommended list and I love the thought of IPMI to run it completely headless

 

RAM: 4Gb Kingston http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139643

 

Case: Antec 902 http://store.antec.com/Product/benclosure/nine-hundred-two/0-761345-45005-8.aspx

 

PSU: Corsair 650W Modular http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139012

 

Drive Cage: Norco 5-in-3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133030

 

This will give me 6 drive capacity to start with and I can add a second or even third cage later to expand capacity.

 

I guess I'm looking for a second opinion. TIA

You might want to consider a 750w PSU to have some added capacity. It won't burn much more power. Mine with quite a few drives doesn't broach 200w at the wall and the capacity reserve is better than running short. I bought a gold rated unit just to squeeze a little more efficiency but anything that's got active cooling control etc would work. 

Good advice, and I saw this on sale:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139040

 

I ordered one, think it would work decently?

It's a single 12V rail, so it should be good to go. Good luck with the build.

Sweet got the case and PSU then. Next up motherboard.