Nas on the cheap?

[ricks0me]

I have several 3.5" IDE drives sitting around. I am looking to set up NAS on the cheap. I have 3 Windows XP machines. I will be hooking up the NAS by CAT5 to my router. What enclosure and software should I use? RAID is not necessary but if it can be setup on the cheap, then I am all for it. Thank you for any suggestions and/or links.

[thiggins]

There is a lot of material in the forums and site on this subject.
Build a Cheap and Fast RAID 5 NAS (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/27840/77/) (a bit dated, but popular article)

Many articles in the NAS - How To section (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/blogcategory/51/77/).

Building High Performance NAS / HTPC (http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=736&highlight=build) and others in the General NAS Discussion forums.

[ricks0me]

Thank You For The Links.......Rick