Why Build Your Own NAS?

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Tim Higgins

If you’ve built your own RAID 5 NAS, post a comment, or send an email to [email protected] and tell me the components you used, how much it cost and why you did it instead of buying an off-the-shelf NAS. If you’ve got pictures, send ’em in, too.

If I get enough responses, I’ll pull the best ones into an article. Thanks!

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