SCSI?  Sorry, but that's just not cost-effective, even when sifting
through the junk pile.  And, instead of a monstrous tower case, why not
try a Mini-ITX box?  More than enough storage and computing power could
be put into a system smaller and lighter than most of the books I lugged
around throughout college (well, probably not quite, but damn close).

Another alternative might be to find an older laptop and get some
CardBus adapters for 1394 and 100Mbit Ethernet, and just use external
FireWire drives for storage.  Those things can be daisy-chained to your
heart's content.

A smaller system could be better because it would allow you to more
easily bring it to Real-Time or the U of M to rsync with the big mirrors
there, freeing you from the need to keep it plugged in somewhere,
syncing continuously...

But, that's just my opinion.  A stone-soup system would be cheaper and
more eco-friendly (well, meaning nothing new was made), so it's just
something to think about...

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