[darkpuppet]

So I finally bit the bullet -- I'm building a Home NAS server.

I found a 4 bay Hot swap SATA enclosure for under $100 -- so I'm repurposing some old 3GHz P4 parts, and building a 4 bay RAID 5 NAS Server. I'm likely going to throw Linux on there and run a DLNA compliant media server.

What does this get me?

a media server with 3TB of storage (to start)... and the ability to recover from a crashed hard drive.

I'm going to back up all my pics, music and TV series DVDs to the machine so listening and watching shows is as simple as turning on my PS3 and selecting an episode (That's what the DLNA server is for).

I'm actually pretty stoked about this little project...

I'm hoping to expand it to be able to rip all my DVDs and BDs to it in the sometime future....