<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div><BR></div> <div>Even if you don't build it yourself there are a ton of choices out there. Iomega StorCenter, Netgear ReadyNAS, D-Link ShareCenter, Seagate BlackArmor NAS, Western Digital Sentinel. </div> <div> </div> <div>Many of these are available at discounts at TigerDirect under the Overstock Deals area, found easily enough by looking for "nas network storage".</div> <div> </div> <div>I even saw a release notice today about QNAS entitled "QNAP Offers 16-Drive Turbo NAS Appliances for Small Businesses" <A title=here href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/QNAP-Offers-16Drive-Turbo-NAS-Appliances-for-Small-Businesses-425500/?kc=rss" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/QNAP-Offers-16Drive-Turbo-NAS-Appliances-for-Small-Businesses-425500/?kc=rss">here</A>. There website is here with a lot of nice looking stuff. <A title=QNAP href="http://www.qnap.com/useng/index.php?sn=69&lang=en-us" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.qnap.com/useng/index.php?sn=69&lang=en-us">QNAP</A></div> <div> </div> <div>I like the fact, for true quality throughput, that focus is going into aggregated network connections and even 10GbE connections, does anyone have suggestions for managed switches that will support multiple NICs working together or a switch that will support that 10GbE connection without costing over $10,000? </div> <div> </div> <div>I've seen Cisco switches that are 1GB with a 10GbE XENPAK port, but that's for cascading/stacking I believe.</div> <div><BR> </div> <div>Aleric Nielson</div> <div>Etherport Computers & Solutions</div> <div><A href="http://www.etherportcomputers.com/">www.etherportcomputers.com</A></div> <div><IMG id=sigimg0 title="signature image" border=0 alt="" src="cid:sigimg0@25310a63ab8e120f0c92d35be45054c5"></div> <div> </div> <div> </div></span></body></html>