Thanks for the replies.
Why not Mac Pro or similar?
- The expense / non-need for power - I like to keep Crapple hardware to a minimum for starters, and there's obviously a more efficient way to serve up files than a dual-Xeon / Nehalem box. Plus, I'd need a RAID card to do RAID5.
Why not a...
I've kicked out a Windows 2003 server among other extraneous devices recently, and I'm looking to replace with a QUIET yet capacious unit capable of multi-drive data redundancy as the central point of data storage for home.
RAID5 is required. Performance-wise, I'm looking at the top fifteen...