We like the clean, uncluttered aspect of the BESTÅ line, but we needed unusual access to the cabinet. .
Besides the cost of the BESTÅ cabinet, it cost an extra single cabinet. We already had the glue and the profile was few euros. It took a couple of. .
We love that it doesn’t look like a hack and that we could use all IKEA things. We did add a non-IKEA extra shelf, but that’s because we wanted one.
[pdf] There are several things you can do to mitigate risk, though. Use a journaled filesystem (ext3, reiserfs, zfs, ntfs, etc.) Make sure you're using a battery-backed raid card Use a UPS, dang nabbit. If you're that worried about your data, it's worth the money. Oh, and also, make sure to set up and test the UPS's auto-shutdown feature on your server.
[pdf] 
