jesus, the prices right now are ridiculous

i was in the same shoes a year ago (wanted a cheap and reliable external storage solution) and went with this:

- dlink dns-320 NAS for $60
- hitachi 2tb 5400rpm drives ($50 each x 2)

ended up spending less than $200 for a 4TB (2TB in RAID-1) external storage solution with some redundancy... i wouldnt trust ANY single drive to hold over 1TB of data reliably without some sort of backup or RAID in place.