External raid / network storage using IDE hard drives
Here's the situation:  I have numerous old hard drives, all of which are at least 120GB.  I'd like to be able to combine these together into a big network share with maybe some kind of RAID option.  How best to do this?  I've a slightly older PC (about 2GHz) that I'd like to use as a server across my network.  Ideally I'd like to be able to backup my stuff to a RAID.

Does anyone have any suggestions, words of wisdom, words of warning, etc?  I find buying some additional hardware perfectly acceptable, but I don't know what to even look for.  This is for a home environment.  I'm proficient with Linux (which I'd prefer the server to run).

Any comments are welcome.
External raid / network storage using IDE hard drives
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Here's the situation:  I have numerous old hard drives, all of which are at least 120GB.  I'd like to be able to combine these together into a big network share with maybe some kind of RAID option.  How best to do this?  I've a slightly older PC (about 2GHz) that I'd like to use as a server across my network.  Ideally I'd like to be able to backup my stuff to a RAID.

Does anyone have any suggestions, words of wisdom, words of warning, etc?  I find buying some additional hardware perfectly acceptable, but I don't know what to even look for.  This is for a home environment.  I'm proficient with Linux (which I'd prefer the server to run).

Any comments are welcome.