[Project] NAS Appliance

[Lloyd_mcse]

Network Attached Storage Appliance

Been thinking alot about my storage system lately, as my Synology NAS drive is way out of date, as it can't support over 500gb drives so maybe upgrade to one of their Synology 4 Bay units but that would end up costing about £600 to £800.

So after not thinking every detail through I thought why not use my little cheapo Celeron system ...

Intel Celeron E3200 2.4GHz
Asus P5KPL G31 MATX
2GB DDR2
Adaptec 2120S SCSI U320 64MB cache Controller (laying around)
2x Fujitsu 18GB 15,000rpm U320 SCSI RAID0 (Server 2008 OS)
2x 2TB Western Digital Green
Antec 350watt Basiq PSU
Coolermaster Elite 330

Installed Windows Server 2008 and just sharing a 500GB drive of films atm as a trial, before spending any more cash.
Need to add a better PSU and a better cpu would be nice. We'll see how things go.

I plan to stick it in a corner with a lan and pwr cable and run it 24/7

*Note i know this isn't the usual type of project, i just thought i'd share what i am doing will add some pics and info when i have more time