I've just moved into a new flat with a couple of mates and was looking at something for centralised media storage. I've had my eye on this Buffalo TeraStation which seems to do everything I need although for about the same money I could build a new PC with, say, 2 500Mb drives and that'd leave me with the possibility of adding additional drives at a later date. Any thoughts on whats best? The components I was looking at for the self build option are below; Western Digital Caviar 500GB S300 16mb 7200rpm - £155.00x2 = £310.00 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 512KB - £59.63 Asustek Socket 939 SiS 756 PCI-E ATX A V L R - £37.24 Crucial 2x512MB 184Pin DIMM PC3200 - £56.74 Sapphire X300SE 128MB PCI-E DVI-I VO - £29.62 Total - £493.23
go for the system. the new system would be better because of the functionality, whereas the NAS would be only space and the system could give you space plus other things. i think the system would be better value for you.
