Building a NAS storage

[njathan]

I have some old hard disk drives which are lying idle since my old PC hardware crashed to the point of no recovery. I am considering building a NAS storage from these for my home.

Any pointers on how to come up with one with minimal investment on new hardware?

 

[njathan]

Bump... Anyone tried this?

 

[whitestar_999]

depends on how much you are willing to invest & what type of NAS you are aiming for.you can get a cheap intel dual core & a micro-atx mobo,put in a pci/pci-e gigabit lan card,install windows 7 on smallest hard disk & share rest of the drives over the network.
or you can run a dedicated RAID setup using an entirely new OS running from a pen drive.
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