NAS Enclosure advice

[shocking]

I'm on the hunt for a NAS enclosure, not sure if this belongs in the networking or HDD section so stuck this in here for now (mods - feel free to move at your discretion).

I have looked at the Synology range and they look great, but are rather expensive. I have a couple of spare 400GB SATA hard drives and ideally I would like to buy just the enclosure to put them into. It has to support RAID1 - that is a must, but I would like it to be able to act as an FTP server and download torrents. In the past I've been using an EPIA for this job, but it has since died and I just want something simple to replace it as I've already got a linux box on other duties...

If it has NTFS support, then all the better, but I can live with copying my music collection onto a new HDD and formatting with EXT3 or whatever.

Does anybody know of any sensibly priced contraptions that I should be looking at? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[squiffy]

D-Link DNS-323? Dual bay. It does support RAID 0 & 1. Doesn't support NTFS but EXT2 is supported (EXT3 was but removed) It has FTP but not sure if it can be used as torrent server. It's around £160 though.

http://www.dlink.co.uk/?go=gNTyP9Cg...hLPG3yV3oV415g6ltbNlwaaFp6DQoHDrpySJC+oUBA9/v

Don't bother with cheap NAS, collegue bought one and it was rubbish (competitor)

You can install Linux on Buffalo Linkstation Pro, so I guess can do torrent with no problem, dunno ntfs being it's MS, probably not.

 

[shocking]

Just been reading a review of that, seems to be a reasonable bit of kit. Still on the lookout for something a little cheaper, but if I have to spend money then I guess that's what will happen

 

[lsg1r]

2 disk raid - youre looking at around 150 quid up unfortunately.

consider thecus, synology (I have a single disk one and its fine except torrents maybe a little slow) and qnap