I'm in the early stages of building an SD which will hold 8TB.

This is where you should start:

   http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/23/the-new-box-some-purchases/

Earlier: the hardware selection process

Later: some slight refinements.

Goal: A FreeBSD 8.x system with a ZFS filesystem on 5x2TB HDD.

Price: about $1800 I think.

I should be building it this weekend.

Yes: I could have built it cheaper.  The main goal: big and decently 
reliable.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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