A while back I bought a server - a sweet one.

It's a Dell PowerEdge SC1420.
- It's got 2 Intel Socket 604 slots - right now both are loaded with Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz processors, and both have Hyperthreading and EM64t Support. (The nice thing about that 604 socket is that I'll be able to slap Multi-Core, VT, enabled, EM64T Xeons in a while when I need to upgrade - that way instead of seeing 4 logical processors, I'll be able to enjoy 8).
- It's also currently got 4GB of RAM, and is upgradeable to 12. (muhahahahaha)
- It ships with a dual SATA bus, and I've currently got it hooked up to 2 WD Caviar drives. Honestly, I'm sold on them - they (and Toshiba) make the best drives. Period.
- I can throw all sorts of RAID controllers at it when I want.
(As an aside, having storage is coolio - by my last calculations, I've got .7 TB floating around in my office between my new Server, Laptop, and two external drives. Best of all, I can configure my server to handle up to about 1 TB by itself if I need to.)

Best of all, it runs VMware Server like there's no tomorrow. I've had an entire domain of virtual machines (well, 4 machines) running at once on it, and I swear that each one of them was faster than my fairly-beefy laptop.

Though it makes me a complete nerd, I just love this thing. LOVE IT.