New cheap server

[bru]

I'm looking to build a cheap home server and I have come up with a couple of builds that look OK to me, but of course there is always the chance that I have over looked something, anyway here they are one Intel and one AMD. AMD one is a little cheaper but only has 4 sata ports for future HDD expansion.







comments..?

 

[bru]

It will just be a machine hooked up to my 60" plasma to watch programs from, play mp3's through the stereo and of course storage for all my stuff that i currently have on my main machine (i7 920@4Ghz. possibly also to run a minecraft server on to save having my machine running all the time.

 

[bru]

it wont be mkv/bluerays, just over 600Gb's of tv recordings, 300Gb's of mp3's and several hundrd Gb's of game and utility iso's.
I called it a server due to wanting to be able to access any of the files from any of the other machines on the network just like a file server. also running my mincraft server would be a great help too.
if that isnt what a server is then i dont know.