I'm considering recycling my old Acer Aspire Revo 3610 (ATOM 330 Dual Core box - see here for a pic). Plan is to make a low power basic NAS box.
Looking to use something like FreeNAS ideally, but could use another distro or possible even buy a Win7 licenses if pushed. But I'd rather not.
Main gotcha is connectivity for drives is a single esata cable (plus the one onboard). Really just want/need an single pair of mirrored drives. Performance doesn't have to be stellar so not too worired about the esata throughput, more concerne about how to connect two drives up via one cable and enable raid. Have seen devices such as this which look promising.
Not sure about how far I can push this though before FreeNAS or linux distros refuse to recognise the drives...