Building a server

[cybersamurai]

some of you guys are really divulging out of scope, for instance aardpsymon where the hell does heat management come in? (more importantly how did you arrive at that figure of 1000 joules per second? that isn't fact) and why do you assume the guy's question is flawed nihil?? he simply wants to know what components are found in a typical server in a data center end of story.
And i would only assume that the reason he didn't google it is because he needs somewhere to turn back to easily incase he gets stuck or shizzer hits the fan.

So without the bull crap here it is - raid 5 or 1, rundant PSU, dual Xeon or other 64bit CPU's, 2x1000meg NIC, SCSI adapters (for backups more than one. after all this is a datacenter server we r talkin about). Usually a V4 drive is entry level. Please note this is not comprehensive any one fell differently by all means mention the missing essential COMPONENTS of a TYPICAL SERVER of a DATACENTER