Storage solutions??

[platinum87]

ive been needing to build a external hard drive storage box or sumthing..

the obvious solution is a NAS, via gigabit network will be fast enough but this is expensive for anything more then 2 drives,

second option i have thought about is, cheap pc, really small + cram HDD in and hook it up to the network. however i would prefer 5.25 inch bays filled with removable hdd caddies.

the question is if there is anything i can buy to connect several hard drives to, and not need to build an entire pc and have something very small...

 

[platinum87]

i think what i was trying to get at, is if you get lets say antec 900, cut it off at 5 , 5.25 bays, and lets say 22cm depth, , fill it with 5 HDD's, some fans, and then have like sumthing out of the NAS boxes, instead of the whole mobo/cpu/ram thing. and what would this be called. (i want to build it custom, second choice is to build the smallest pc ever but mobo is quite big)