[linux-audio-user] (OT) Affordable Networked Attached Storage?

[Michael TD Nelson]

Hi,

I have an idea in mind for a product which I'd like to own. Basically, 
I'd like to be able to buy an enclosure that takes two off-the-shelf 
hard discs (IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS, whatever...) and connects to my LAN 
with an ethernet cable (gigabit preferred, but 10/100 is acceptable).

It should have an onboard RAID (absolutely essential) and provide SMB 
and NFS shares to the network (maybe also ftp), probably with an Apache 
server to supply a management GUI.

I know that I can build something like this, but I would like to buy one 
- I have found products by Buffalo and Icy Box which come close, but I 
haven't found one for (what I consider to be) a reasonable price that 
does exactlt what I'd like.

I'd like it to have an ethernet connection so I can have a box like this 
sitting alongside the wireless router in my house,. I could then avoid 
having any desktop or laptop switched on permanently - and still have 
24hr wireless access point, DHCP server, print servers, firewall, AND 
file storage supplied to anyone (permitted) who chooses to connect.

I would still use my internal discs for recording/playing audio, but a 
networked attached box would be very useful for running backups, and 
archiving data centrally.

Does anyone know of any products, or manufacturers who make such an item?

Thanks
Michael Nelson