Well..stage 2 is now complete with the addition of the much promised NAS to my home network.
In the end I went for an Infrant (now Netgear) ReadyNAS NV+, which gives me about 680 GB storage after building the RAID 5 volume takes it’s share.
It plays real nice with my other devices sharing out the space by AFP, SMB, NFS or HTTP/HTTPS and as a bonus for me it can act as a streaming iTunes server (even with DRMed tracks from the Music Store).
With a little bit of a tweak on Leopard it will even use it as a TimeMachine backup volume, although it’s probably not recommended as presumably Apple turned this off for a good reason.
That’s a lot of storage, I just wimped out and bought one of the 360Gb Iomega units to sit under the always on macmini.
No RAID, but then nothing important on it at this stage and there is still another couple of 100Gb free around the rest of the network.
Starts out big, but you soon find loads to store
. And I expect to see it fill up more if Apple enable the TimeMachine backup to network drives legitimately in the next point release (i could enable it as in the post but it makes me nervous)