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I installed lots of disks in Raid 5 into my spare machine, stuck it in a cupboard and use it as a file/backup and UPNP server.

All my other machines use the drives on their for storage and backup and use small and fast drives such as the WD Raptor instead of something like the Spinpoint 1TB drive.

Improves the performance of my real desktop and puts my data under linux rather than windows making remote access possible if I want to take the risk,