Buying a NAS isn't the answer for everyone. A simple external drive would suit you well, but I would suggest you buy the drive and enclosure separately rather than buy an all-in-one solution. You will get a drive that has a longer warranty (external drives usually only come with a one year warranty) and if choose your enclosure carefully you'll get something with much more ventilation (which means longer drive life!) than a already-built solution.-Innuendo (September 29, 2009, 10:39 AM)
After copying 800 gigs of files and throwing away the dvds, I lost everything I had copied on a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB drive. Non-recoverable.
No need for it to be. Try any one of a dozen free open source servers. Won't cost you so much as a forint since they're all free for download. That's the beauty of FOSS. If the first one doesn't do what you want, just download and try out another.