[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Those cheap Dell servers that people have been picking up lately...  do 
their motherboards conform to a standard form-factor or are they 
something proprietary?

The reason why I ask is that I've found a case which has 9 (!) 5.25" 
open drive bays in the front for less than $110 shipped.  I'd love to be 
able to throw a few hundred dollars at the problem to get a solution as 
beefy as an 8-core Xeon.

I'm building an extensible NAS box.  I'll be able to fit up to fifteen 
1TB SATA drives in this thing, five at a time.

Peace...  Sridhar