This is the way I do it, and from free (or in some cases very cheap) second hand kit from 486's and ancient SGI Personal IRIS's through to my latest Athlon boxes I have a total of 1.1ish Terabytes available for use. I have all of it shared using Samba and NFS and it works beautifully. Admittedly I put more deep archive stuff on the older, slower disks and all the latest stuff on decent UltraSCSI hardware.


It makes for easy arrangements and editing - and I use the fast disks for video editing as well.


The point of this post - use old discarded kit. Rack it up in your attic (well I have to so my wife doesn't complain:) and network it all together and Bob's your uncle