DIY Nas Project Kick Off

As you can see in my recent posts, I've been thinking about how much power electronic junk around my house consumes. The reason is because my MacPro is running out of hard drive space and consuming over 200 watts while idling as the house file, iTunes, print, and Time Machine backup server. It goes to sleep after 20 minutes of inactivity, but I'm not satisfied. I want to replace the MacPro with an extremely expandable energy sipping home file and media server which could possibly double as a DVR backend with MythTV. If all goes well, the MacPro and Tivo are sold on Craigslist to the highest bidder and I'm left with a single machine consuming less than 60 watts while idle and money in my pocket.