Hi all,
Holy crap 9TB of storage!!!!!
OK just had to look into this for a customer and i did have one running for a while.
there are 3 main one i know of, all running under Linux (or different flavors there of).
FreeNAS (
http://www.freenas.org/)
free (duh) and a little tricky to get going. but works really well. also forums are good.
NASLite (
http://www.serverelements.com/)
this is a great product, reasonably priced for what you get. has some really nice features, like being able to sync each night to another NASLite unit. also supports drive controller cards so you to can have 9TB of data...... swap meets hmmmmmmm.
(also its licensed per naslite box, not one off fee for the software. much like windows)
Openfiler (
http://www.openfiler.com/)
this is probably the top of the line in free NAS software. Another open source product but this one hooks into active directory via LDAP. works REALLY well. gives you all sorts of status & other reports. Dead simple to setup.
Again FREEE
From the hardware you are quoting then you need to make a decision as to if the NAS unit is just going to store stuff or is it going to crunch shows etc. if it is just going to store stuff that hardware is EXTREME over kill.
( I had NASlite running on a P2 450, 128 RAM and 3x80GB HDD until the power supply decided it wanted the MoBo black and the HDD to stop spinning !!!)
If on the other hand you would like it to crunch recordings then that hard ware would work and you could use the XP home edition to run crunchie on. then you could have your cake and eat it to.
But be ware that you can not remote desktop to a home edition box. or is it you cant remote desktop form a home edition. I always get that mixed up.
Chris.