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shmokes:
Consider something on which you can install an operating system.  FreeNAS is an open source OS that will give you most of the features I've described here, I think.  I don't know much about it other than that people unanimously sing its praises.  It would probably be much more powerful than what you're looking at, and potentially cheaper.  But this likely would be more difficult to use while meeting your power-consumption goals, I suppose.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on December 15, 2009, 09:57:11 am ---But this likely would be more difficult to use while meeting your power-consumption goals, I suppose.

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That's the catch.  I did look at that last week, actually.  If I had a machine on hand that I thought a good candidate I'd probably go with FreeNAS.  All of my spare hardware is IDE and it doesn't make a ton of sense these days to set up a NAS on IDE.

shmokes:
Here's a cool DIY NAS guide.  This one would probably meet all your needs except price.  It's closer to $200 before adding hard drives.  But it might be useful for some, and it looks like it would be a really fun project.

Cakemeister:

--- Quote from: shmokes on December 15, 2009, 09:48:24 am ---
Cakemeister: You should check out this Acer box:  http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B001WGX15W?tag=betteraddons-20


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This is the one I have been looking at. It uses an Atom processor.

If you buy a case, power supply, a 1TB drive, motherboard, CPU, 2 gig of memory, and a license for Windows Home Server, I don't see how you can do better building your own than getting one of these.

IceCold:
As far as FreeNAS goes, it's wonderful.  Decent transfer speed, low resource usage / requirements, and very feature rich.  I'm running mine on an Asus Terminator C3 which is a very small box that doesn't use that much power and FreeNAS runs great on it(I got the Asus terminator a couple years back for like $70 as open box on Newegg).  It's running an 800mhz Via processor and has 1GB DDR in it.  Only 2 SATA ports, though, and only one PCI slot(so you have to compromise and either add a SATA card or add a Gigabit LAN card.  I'm running it with a Gigabit LAN card and 2 750GB SATA drives in Raid 1)

Even running SSH on it, FTP server, DYNDNS, etc. etc. it still doesn't come close to peaking out the lowly 800mhz Via processor.  All configuration can be done through your web browser too which is nice.

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