K. Scott's Hardware Recommendations

Large Desktop

Dell Precision T7500 Tower Workstation

6qty 4GB DIMMs

2qty Western Digital RE4 2TB Hard Drives

USB Harddrive

Cavalry makes a CAXH external eSATA/USB-2.0 drive that auto switches between 100-240v and 50/60 Hz. The 2TB model sells for about $120

Seagate sells a USB2.0 external harddrive that works with Windows, Linux and Mac. It comes with a in-line transformer power cord, which means you must take the cord with the drive.

Hard Drive Enclosure

The BYTECC 35SUS-BK does both USB and eSATA.

Toaster: Thermaltake BlacX ST0005U does USB and eSATA.

Dell PowerEdge R410 Drive Caddies

3.5 SAS Tray (F238f)

Drive Protectors

MUKii ZIPO

eSATA PCIe card

Rosewill makes a RC-219 eSATA-2 PCIe card.

USB Sticks

The Flash Voyager CMFUSB2.0-8GB from Corsair is an 8GB USB 2.0 flash memory drive that works with Windows, Linux and Mac.

Wireless Cards

Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g CardBus Wireless LAN Client Adapter (CB21AG). This card needs drivers in both Linux (madwifi) and Windows, but does do WPA2.

Dual-head VGA PCI

PNY GeForce FX5200 This is an nVidia GeForce card with a PCI interface and dual VGA (dsub) outputs.

Dual-head DVI PCI-express

EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR This is an nVidia GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card with dual DVI-I outputs.

Obsolete

OBSOLETE: USB 2.0 PCI Card

OBSOLETE: USB 2.0 PCMCIA Cards

OBSOLETE: USB Harddrive

This model stopped working with linux in April 2005 because of a newer chip/firmware.

The StingRay 800 from firewiredirect.com. The only disadvantage is that it doesn't have an onboard firewire-400 port; you will need an adapter cable. but since Linux crashes with firewire most of our users will be using usb. Might want to keep from getting larger than 160GB as current Redhat Linux hangs when formatting anything larger via USB.

Features...

• maxtor drive
• normal 120V grounded PC powercord (built-in power supply)
• Linux support
• firewire-800 and USB 2.0 connectors