Another hard drive enclosure

Just bought an inexpensive hard drive enclosure from CircuitCity.com:

Ultra 3.5" External USB 2.0 / Firewire IDE HD Enclosure

I like these enclosures a lot. I bought several Metal Gear enclosures, and they are working out great.

Cheap 2.5" SATA drives

I like 2.5" SATA drives (notebook drives) for use in full size computers over PATA drives because they use the same interface, no need for an adapter. I went searching for cheap 2.5" SATA drives and found a great deal at geeks.com:

Cheap 2.5" SATA drives - from $35+ for refurbished drives!

Since these are refurbished, I don't want to use them in mission critical items, but they'd be great for testing machines, portable drives, and other non-critical setups.

Remember, notebook drives only use about 2 watts of power, where 3.5" drives use up to 10 watts. For more computer power consumption information, check out docunext.com.

Buying two NAS setups from Newegg

I'm buying the components to build two network attached storage devices from Newegg. The shell is the Thecus 2100, and the drives are Samsung.

The Thecus 2100 is an open box for $250 : N82E16833201005R

and the Samsung 500GB Hard drive for $139: N82E16822152052

and memory upgrades Kingston 512MB for $39: N82E16820141436

I have a Linksys NSLU2, which is an awesome device, but it needs a little more power to be really useful. I'm going to rebuild mine with a 2GB flash drive instead of the 512MB one I'm using currently. That should be much better.