Thanks everyone for the wonderful feedback! I think my idea of Intel motherboards being more solid than other brands spawned from the fact their network cards (em) are more reputable (although I am a bit confused these days with all of the opensource issues with Intel).
I am more than convinced now that SuperMicro is the best way for me to go in this situation. Thanks for the Sun suggestions as well, but I'm a college student has to be financed by a small group of friends so saving as money along the way doesn't hurt. I know there were cheaper was to do this such as RAIDframe, however the server should end up being under a significant load as it will hopefully be used by the entire campus. After reading through the replies, I suppose I can fall back on the Intel I had originally picked, but now I am leaning towards a SuperMicro PDSME+. If someone has bad experiences with it the Asus board Didier suggested seems ok too, however I would like to run the GENERIC.MP kernel if possible. Anthony
