Fun with a cheap and powerful Serially Attached SCSI card and 15,000 RPM drives in a blistering RAID 0 configuration.

Looking to build your dream machine? We explore the latest components on the market, and give you advice on which ones to hunt down, along with the general price you can expect to pay for each major component.

Get your licensing shop in order before you build you new server.

Backing up your data is a job thats simple when done badly: doing it properly requires ongoing effort. Its easy to get complacent about your backup routines, particularly when the network is small and

Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

LaCie has announced new RAID devices for Windows and Mac OS computers.

Chip giant selects LSI to supply technology for servers and workstations.

Police have raided a Coffs Harbour premises and uncovered a DVD pirating operation alleged to be worth $750,000.

The 1TB box, also available in smaller, less tough sizes.

For it's price, the 7NNXP has the usual set of features, and offers IDE RAID but no SATA RAID.

A versatile single-socket rack server with a wide range of processor choices, plus a good warranty for the price.

Acer has sacrificed overall power in favour of features with this moderate little system.

Like the KT4 Ultra, the ASUS A7V8X is an Athlon XP board that uses the VIA KT400 chipset. It packs in a truckload of extras, such as Serial ATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN, AGP 8X and even RAID.

We’ve had some great competitors knocking on the mid-range A-Listed door, but TI’s all-rounder wins through.

A 43-year-old man has been charged with DVD piracy following a police and industry investigator raid that unearthed a massive counterfeiting operation in a Coffs Harbour house in February.

The D900T has to be one the most impressively kitted out notebooks we've ever reviewed. Now, before you go running off with a fist full of readies, this notebook isn't available as such to the general public. Rather, resellers of Todaytech's notebooks can order them in whatever configuration you want. Or if you'd rather -- and we quite like this option -- you can order the notebook stripped of most options, and configure your own from spare parts or cheaper parts if you think you can do better on pricing.

The Gigabyte SINXP1394 is a little pricey, but supports SATA, IDE RAID and Hyper-Threading, as well as FireWire

Gigabyte's new Canterwood-based GA-8KNXP is, without a doubt, one of the most full-featured motherboards we've ever seen. It incorporates all of the basics offered by the MSI 865PE Neo2 (see below) plus more. The differences between the older 845 and new 865 (Springdale) and 875 (Canterwood) chipsets are primarily feature-based – the 875P is designed to be the ultra-high-end option for extreme power users. As such, it's more expensive but has more niche capabilities.

Size matters.