Free NAS Software

I found this free NAS software on the 123macmini.com forum. It is appropriately called FreeNAS. The description on their site says:

FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.

Check it out and let me know what you think. www.freenas.org

Hard drive prices

I was looking on Tiger Direct today at hard drive prices. They have a Hitachi sata-300 500 GB drive for $109.oo. They have a Hitachi 750 GB sata-300 for $219 and a hitachi 1 TB for $399. For the price of the 1 TB you could almost buy four of the 500 GB drives.

Update: 4 port sata pci raid card, $149.99

Replace/ Add a hard drive easily to PS3

Team Xecuter's Hard Drive Xtender replaces PS3 HDD with your own
From Engadget.com

Can't stream network media to PSP

So I found out today that you can only stream media to your PSP if it is physically on your PS3 hard drive. I have to think that it's a matter of time until someone figures a way to get around this. What about connecting a large external drive to your PS3 and having all your media reside there? I found this post on PS3forums.com talking about connecting external drives to the PS3.
http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=83445

This of course brings up a few questions. The main one being, if all of my media resides on a external drive connected to the PS3, can I still access that media on my network? If my only goal is to be able to access my media anywhere with a PSP then this may be a good idea. However, I like to have all of my data organized and a traditional file server that can be accessed anywhere in my house seems like the better thing to do.