Current Recommendations For a Home File Server?

j.sanchez1 writes "The recent coverage of Shuttle's new KPC has gotten me thinking (again) about a small, low-cost headless file server for home. In the past, I have looked at the iPaq and considered using older computers I have lying around, but for various reasons I have never jumped in to do it. Do you guys have any suggestions on what to use for a home file server (hardware and software)? The server would be feeding files to Windows PCs and connected to the network through a Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT firmware." There are a host of good options these days; what has the best bang for the home-user's buck?

You need a home server do you?

[AP2k]

Boy, do I have a site you need to check out! http://www.stayathomeserver.com/book.aspx [stayathomeserver.com]

Re:You need a home server do you?

[Atti K.]

OMFG, this is a joke, right? Please, tell me it's a joke. Please.

"When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a very special gift. So he buys a stay-at-home server."

OMFG!!!

Re:Windows Home Server

[Anonymous Coward]

It's got built in support for automatically corrupting all of your files.

There, fixed that for you. :-)