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A very good point !!! I am a little worried about this, between the CCTV cameras, 2 PC's and all the network stuff I could run up a nice bill very quickly.

The second PC is running XP Pro at the moment, and runs my current Media Server choice OneWeb this is a little out dated now, and I want to upgrade to something like SlimServer as some of it's features will come in really handy (streaming DAB radio from wavefinder and PocketPC control!), I know that will run on Linux but the only thing keeping on Windows is that I would really like to run DVDLobby to control my DVD changer (this also has PPC control - can you see where I am going with this ).

This machine is full at the moment (400Gb of something!!!) so it needs an upgrade anyway, I thought a NAS solution would offer a nice backup solution on top of being robust enough to just leave alone once it is set up.

Cheers

Cris.