NAS or custom?

[vsector]

Hi! I am interested in organizing my pile of hard disk drives and data.

So the question is commercial NAS or build my own? It's easier to get a commercial NAS, but I'm contemplating just getting a few off the shelf components and putting together one.

Some of the issues I'm facing:
-I have a large number of differing HDD
-I intend to use for primarily file sharing, downloading, and watching movies.
-I have computers from the entire spectrum of operating systems.

Is there a reasonably priced NAS that is flexible enough or would it be better to build my own?

 

[stevech]

Sounds like you aren't familiar with what Synology, QNAP NASes do beyond file sharing.

Try out their on-line demos.