Help me build a lan box!

Ive found the mobo: See other thread
Got the ram: 256meg PC133
Got the right harddisk: Barra IV from dabs for £85, edit: sorted now
Got a PSU on order from maplins: 145 Micro one

Need:

Single devise rounded IDE cables, or generally the cheapest rounded ones u can find, any colour.

VIA C3 900/933 skt 370 CPU. only place i can find is dabs @ £65

Slimline DVDrom or cheapest slot loading DVD avaliable

anything else ive forgotten?? Im hoping some of u will know some good places or special stuff that i dont know about suitable for an ultra small, ultra quiet acrylic case

 

Blimey. A 15 year old post with no replies.

One question occurs for me, what is meant by a LAN box? LAN gaming perhaps but I'm more likely to build a SAN or server.

 

Yup that's a record man. You're only fifteen years too late.

 

My guess is a terrible attempt to boost post count for free Scan postage .

 

PC133 RAM.

Those were the days. Jumpers for goalposts... big Wagon Wheels...

 

I'm still waiting on replies, a little help here plz!

In the time between original post and now I've graduated university, put 10 years into a professional career, met my wife, married my wife and had two kids. I don't have time for games, let alone LANs now

 

My question.. What the heck is a SAN box?

 

Saucy Area Network?

 

Bindi should be ashamed of using 'u' twice in that OP. We were all young and foolish once, but a man has to have standards. Disappoint.

 

Slippers And Netflix.

 

Just in case your question was serious, storage area network. A SAN box would be a casual term for a storage device with access via block protocols (e.g. iSCSI or FC) over a network (i.e. the SAN), thus the contrast with a NAS box (NFS or CIFS)

 

I was 19, there's a lot to regret from that period

 

Do you actually recall that much of it? Or just assuming there is regret

 

You mean jumpers for IDE drives surely.

 

I nearly went with jumpers for bus speed but decided to stick with the original.

 

Man when you think about it... Moved to the USA, got married, got divorced, moved back, met a new lady and got married again etc. Amazing how much has happened in the last 15 years really !

 

Interesting to see that the cost for example kit hasn't changed much, must be a sweet spot for how much a punter will pay: disk = £85; power supply £145. Of course the sizes/capacity have gone up quite a bit, except for the power supplies tho.

 

Anyone else start considering if they have IDE cables knocking around? I thought this must be some retro project before I saw the date!

What about inflation?! That is why Nvidia GPUs are so expensive now, allegedly.

 

In America.

Everywhere else it has more to do with the exchange rate vs the US$ as the MSRP of computer components is always decided in US$.