Just finished doing some upgrades on the Dell Poweredge SC1425 I bought a few weeks back. Threw in an extra 2 TB and 500 GB hard drive I had lying around. It's tough only having one Internet connection in this place (the new house will be all wired-up), so I am at a stopping point for now.
The next thing to do is upgrade the BIOS, which is currently 2 versions behind. This will allow me to put in up to 16GB of RAM when it is done. After that, I'll turn on the Webmin and do some other boring stuff. Eventually all my movies will be put on this thing.
For anyone who is interested, I will be following this guide when upgrading the BIOS: http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/upgrade-downgrade-your-dell-bios-on-ubuntu/
UPDATE: used this guide http://www.ducea.com/2007/08/27/dell-bios-firmware-updates-on-debian/
and this one as well: http://www.naveoss.com/site/141/tutorials/linux/how-to-update-dell-bios-from-ubuntu
The BIOS upgrade for an SC1425 (version A03) is located here: http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs/system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x019a_version_a03/
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