I have a NAS box now, but it's a Dlink DNS-323. It has gigabit ethernet, but I don't think the hardware has enough horsepower to even saturate a 100mbit connection. At least it feels incredibly slow with multiple disk operations going at once. It also sometimes won't detect my drives properly when booting from a power-off state. A reset always fixes that, but it doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy inside... especially since I'm already taking a gamble with RAID 0.

I know I could build a NAS box, but until Archeon mentioned iSCSI, it didn't fit the strong preference that the array appears as a local drive within Windows. I will look into that a bit, but running another computer isn't really practical. There is a power draw and added noise concern.


Those do look nice and I am open to a pre-populated box, but I currently have two matched 750GB drives with no home. I would rather put them to use than get something like that if possible.