Hey, that's a good deal. It's the same Fractal Designs case we talked about in the other recent NAS thread, but the case alone costs £150 or more in the UK, so three hectoloons (under £200) for the lot is well worth having. In fact even the non-special-offer price is still pretty good.

Peter

Funnily enough, I was pricing up that exact combo recently. It will, unfortunately, probably only fit in the "server room" (cupboard by the front door) sideways, though. Also, that board only has 4 SATA ports, and there's 7 bays (6x3.5" and 1x2.5") in the case, as far as I can tell. Zotac have a Mini-ITX board with 6 SATA ports, which is another option, but that requires a separate, "proper" CPU.

My "upgraded NAS" project is on hold at the moment, though; my netbook was stolen a couple of weeks ago, so I spent my toy budget on replacing that first.

Yup. That's why the "bundle" includes a PCI SATA controller card to give more ports.

Cheers

Ah. Didn't scroll down that far. This netbook doesn't have a huge screen

DVD rips are stored on my ReadyNAS Ultra 4 with 4x2TB disks in a RAID 5. I didn't finish ripping my collection before my move, but with what I have there, it looks like it may be enough space, as long as I relocate my now rather large Time Machine backups back to the older NV+.

What I may do one day is use one of the DVD reprocessing tools to strip out foreign languages and other features I don't want to save space. As for backups, I figure the physical discs are good enough if the NAS manages to suffer more then a single drive failure.