[alyrik]

A cheap NAS made from a Raspberry Pi model B (the Ethernet one) and an off-the-shelf USB external HDD.

[yitchelle]

Something like this? http://www.amazon.com/Addonics-NASU2-NAS-Adapter/dp/B001OC5J...

At around $50, might be cheaper to go with this. Unless you are implementing the NAS just because it can be done :-)

[Ecio78]

I have a modified Seagate Dockstar[1][2] and I'm using it with an external HDD, but I think it would be cheaper using a modified NetGear Stora[3] that has 2 SAS ports than using more than one USB external HDDs (with a dockstar or a Raspberry Pi).

I think more interesting applications are in those field in which you can take advantage of the video HDMI port and the IO ports..

[1] http://ahsoftware.de/dockstar/

[2] http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/

[3] http://www.openstora.com/

[Habbie7]

I had one of those. It's a very limited device, it runs some custom embedded OS (certainly not Linux) and craps out if you try to access it from two workstations at the same time, etc. etc.

[adestefan]

That would be so slow it probably isn't worth doing.