I wish I'd seen this thread earlier, but I'm going through setting up a ReadyNAS at the moment. Got the ReadyNAS Ultra 4 with 3x2TB drives, giving me 4TB of RAID 5 storage. Great little box, basically it's a highly customised Debian Etch linux box inside, Intel dual core chip, 1GB RAM. Am installing a virtual machine on it and it will run my mail server, web server, DNS, web proxy etc as well as automated backups for home network. Cost me around $850 - cheaper than a desktop solution. I'm very impressed with it.
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