You guys have given me great advice in the past, so I thought I'd try again with a new system build.
Goals:
cheap
low-energy
quiet
Purpose:
Primarily, this system will be a LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for my personal development projects. It will also serve as a CVS server and repository. I want to leave it up 24/7.
Secondarily, I thought I'd set it up as a NAS server as well.
OS:
Ubuntu 9.04 server edition. This will be a headless system, so no video card or sound card is required.
Have I missed anything? I was considering different CPU coolers, but I'm not sure what may fit in the case and if it will be any quieter than the one that comes with the CPU.
Are you going to be compiling code on this box? Or just CVS? If so you don't need such a powerful processor. An Intel Atom should be good enough and draw about 10% of the power of the system you speced out.
Also why RAID? Hard drives almost never fail these days. Its much more likely you get zapped by a power hit from lighting or somebody hitting a pole outside your house. It that case you loose both drives. You better off putting the second drive in USB dock, backing everything up to it, and putting it on a shelf.
Take a look at VortexBox. It's based on FC11 not Ubuntu but it makes a perfect NAS box.