Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler HDD Enclosures & Network Attached Storage

I now have a 500GB SATA HDD available. I started looking at just getting a simple enclosure for it with a USB connection. As I researched enclosures, I realized that what would be really cool would be to make it available to my home network (both wired & wireless connections).

I'm comfortable with computers and the basics of networking, but I have no idea what to do with this opportunity. The choices are bewildering. I didn't want to spend more than $100, but it seems like all of the diskless NAS options in that price range are non-standard.

Would want to use this for:
1) Backing up files from PCs
2) Sharing all of our music
3) I guess other media files as well, not that we have any video yet.

So what would you recommend? What alternative solutions would you recommend? I also have a couple of external USB drives already (250Gb and 160Gb I think).

Thanks!
Rich