Recent content by CaptGaucho

Ok I took all the advice here and put together a box from parts I had around. My box is an older unit 2.7ghz with 1.5g ram. Promise Raid card with 3 hard drives, 1 for an OS then 2 400g for the picture back ups. Now should I use Windows 2003 since I also have it laying around or keep it as an...

Living in the era of Digital Pictures, I already had a drive failure and lost pictures that I can't get back. It was between the time I scheduled a weekly backup of the drive. I just figure if I put these drives into a RAID I would be safe if there is any disk failures I could always rebuild.

Thanks for the replies!!!!!! Im not really interested in backing up any machines, I would just like a network drive where my family could share pictures from and use to dump my 1000+ cd collection into. And maybe even drop a few hundred dvd's on to it. My #1 concern is that if there is a...

Hi All. First post here. I've been throwing this option around for awhile and can't seem to make a decision on what type of NAS with Raid option I want for my home enviroment. We have 3 Laptops and 2 Desktops in my house and what I would like to do is build a NAS where I could store all my...