210V as a home linux server - capacity question

[tiber]

Hi guys,

I've had this box for a long time, and thought with large hdds being as inexpensive as they are these days, it might be time to upgrade my home server.

I've run ClarkConnect on a Tyan Tiger100 2x PIII box for a few years, but would like to move to this small quiet box that could sit on my desk if possible.

Here's my proposed build -

210V
AthlonXP 2500
1GB DDR400
ClarkConnect 4.2 (CentOS)
3ware 7506-4LP - (IDE RAID)
3x 500GB IDE drives in RAID5 off of the 3ware card.
two mounted normally, one in the slot where optical drive would go (won't need other than install, will have it setting outside for that).
integrated video

My main questions are this -

Will this box boot from pci card - 3ware?
Will the PSU for this box reliably power the 3 drives?
Will the PCI bus be saturated w/ drives and ethernet (my other upgrade path was going to include a Thunder 2500, which has multiple PCI 64bit busses).

Box will primarily serve email, ftp, samba repository, some web.

Thanks for your thoughts... want to get input before I go invest in the drives.  Currently using the card w/ 4x 250gb in existing server.  Great card.

Eddie

[tiber]

This forum has gotten.... very.... quiet... these days...

[rrussell]

yeah, I agree.

I only ever had a 200N, so I can't speak to your 200V, but even the 200N topics have waned a bit.

It's a shame - biostar had some really good products, dunno what happened to them.

[tiber]

Let me ask you this... since you and I are the only one's here.  

Do you think the PSU (which I believe is the same as the one that came with your 200n) would reliably power 3 hard drives?  I'll be using integrated video (will only remote into the system), and the 3 drives will run off of a PCI RAID card.

I know Shuttle's PSUs are noted for being solid, but don't know about this 200watt little guy.

[rrussell]

Oh, I'm almost positive it would.

I upped mine to a 250W when I put in a bigger vid card, but I've heard that the 200W is very, very solid.