October 23rd, 2012:

	I've decided to go whole-hog.  Rather than build the Ultra 5 up 
piece-by-piece and screw around with adding peripherals, adding new drives 
to the array as I buy them, pissing around with filesystems, et cetera, 
I'm going to wait until I have EVERYTHING inhand before starting the 
rebuild.

	This makes the most sense to me.  Granted, doing things the hard 
way would be a great learning experience, but I'm not at that level of 
competence yet.

	I've ordered two 73Gb SCA drives from a seller on eBay (who had 
them on sale at $20 a pop), leaving only four slots in the array left to 
be filled.  If we had the money, I would have bought all six, along with a 
SCSI DVD-ROM drive, but finances are pretty low at the moment...

	I'm hoping to have all the parts I need by the end of the year, so 
I can have the Ultra 5 running by the new year.