Supermicro SuperWorkstation 5046A-XB Barebone System (SYS-5046A-XB)

Pros: Nice Little Barebone kit- just built another one- Rock Solid construction, nice PS and nothing complains with a 3ware sata controller and 8 raptors :)Yeah on RAID ten this is one fireball of a web/mail/exchange serverCons: OE Fans are okay, but I swapped the 4 behind the drive cage for some vantec tornados, just a word to the wise.... dont do that unless this thing is in your server closet it will be loud as all get out- but its worth it when during heavy use your HDD's are only 5 degrees above room temp.Nice Little Barebone kit- just built another one- Rock Solid construction, nice PS and nothing complains with a 3ware sata controller and 8 raptors :)Yeah on RAID ten this is one fireball of a web/mail/exchange server OE Fans are okay, but I swapped the 4 behind the drive cage for some vantec tornados, just a word to the wise.... dont do that unless this thing is in your server closet it will be loud as all get out- but its worth it when during heavy use your HDD's are only 5 degrees above room temp. Overall nice kit, keep it up SM. :)

Pros: Great barebones system, solid design, the chassis would withstand a nuclear strike. The C7X58 has a balance between performance and stability, and has been certified by both nVidia SLI and ATI CrossFire for dual graphics support.
Now, the 2 TB limit:
The Windows XP-32 2 TB limit is per-volume. There is a limit to the total number of sectors that a MBR partition table can have. With the standard 512K sectors, that limit is about 2TB, which would be inclusive of all partitions on the drive/array. The partition table has a count of the start and end sectors of each partition, so you can not create a 2 TB partition and then have another beyond that on a larger than 2 TB drive.
The 2TB volume size is a limit of the MBR partition - not Vista , XP, NTFS, Linux, 32bit, 64bit, etc. The MBR structure only supports 4 primary partitions. Three common means of exceeding the 2 TB limit in a single volume are:
1. RAID controller that supports LBA64.
see 2 more items below under other thoughtsCons: You have to watch using a SATA Optical drive and the SATA hard disks for RAID configurations. It seems the Adaptec drivers don?t want you to have a SATA CD-ROM drive installed.Great barebones system, solid design, the chassis would withstand a nuclear strike. The C7X58 has a balance between performance and stability, and has been certified by both nVidia SLI and ATI CrossFire for dual graphics support.
Now, the 2 TB limit:
The Windows XP-32 2 TB limit is per-volume. There is a limit to the total number of sectors that a MBR partition table can have. With the standard 512K sectors, that limit is about 2TB, which would be inclusive of all partitions on the drive/array. The partition table has a count of the start and end sectors of each partition, so you can not create a 2 TB partition and then have another beyond that on a larger than 2 TB drive.
The 2TB volume size is a limit of the MBR partition - not Vista , XP, NTFS, Linux, 32bit, 64bit, etc. The MBR structure only

Pros: Great barebone for server CAD applications.Cons: none.Great barebone for server CAD applications. none. I have this with my 3ware card and 8 raptors- yummmm.
Stock PS isint too shabby either.