Springboarding off the Pair of Twins Post, I have been thinking of building a home brew storage server for several functions including media storage and [automated?] backup over the internet of my family's computers. Carbonite @ $50/yr might not be so bad but x8 or more systems, surely I could build adequate if not superior functionality for less than 2 yrs of service. Currently have two kids running Macs the rest are running some flavor of Windows, XP, Vista/7 plus I run a Ubuntu box as my home system.<br>
<br>I noticed a recertified HP home server box on Newegg for ~$320 with 2x500GB drives (2 open bays, 4 total), Sempron1.8 processor and 512Meg RAM and windblows home server. They sold out of the single hard drive version for $259 or I probably would have already bought it. So the question is, would it be 'more better' to take such a box and slam in a couple of 1.5TB drives or the like and load some Linux distro with necessary tools to be able to dump audio + video and [automated] backups of all the family computers vs using something like a Buffalo Terastation? Or does anybody have a better idea?<br>
<br>Assuming the first option is viable, the next question is how to configure such a box software-wise, I can handle the hardware, but wouldn't know where to start with the software. <br><br>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.<br>
Greg Clifton<br>