Recently i have found myself wanting to add some form of remote storage to my home network. I guess this is because i have an uncanny knack of totally nuking my windows install on a fairly regular basis and then having to re-install everything and copy over all my music (10+ gig) and other stuff from my laptop which this week is running Ubuntu. In fact i have done this so many times that i am starting to have difficulties activating my copy of xp pro, because its been activated too many times, now i have to ring customer support and beg for a new key each time their product blows up in my face, because the automated systems wont work. grrr
But back to the matter at hand.
I am thinking of either getting something like this http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=340118 and then slapping a couple of 500gig harddrives in it, Or alternatively i could build myself a mini itx pc with pointlessly large hdd, and use some form of linux to turn it into a NAS server in its own right.
The advantage of the thecus NAS server is that it will be easy to set up and will definitely work but is not much cheaper than building an itx pc, and can only be used as a NAS server.
As for building a mini itx computer to use as a nas server, it would be more flexible and if in the future i decide i want to try my hand at building some fancy robot (i did cybernetics at university) a mini itx computer would be very useful. Building the mini itx computer is not an issue but i have no idea how complicated it would be to set up a linux distro to act as a NAS server, plus it needs to be visible to windows, linux and mac.
If anybody has any experience with this kind of thing i would welcome any input, currently the geek in me is leaning towards the mini itx idea.
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