Looking deeper I also decided I wanted to build a machine myself rather than buy a Drobo or ready-made NAS solution. Looking into the world of NAS (Network Attached Storage) I figured this would be the best way to have a single location for all of my data and easiest to set up. This article is to help others learn from my own experiences and folleys, if and when they themselves want to wrangle the beast that is spending too much money on NewEgg. Since I am not currently freelance working from my home office: I dont have to worry about this setup being 100% fool-proof in all situations but ideally it will be as close as possible. Since I have a fulltime job with an office in downtown Raleigh, NC this setup is for me to use only when I am working from home on weekends, snow days, or on small side projects. This article is by no means comprehensive, objective, or educated enough to tell anyone what they should and shouldn’t do when it comes to setting up backup, archive, or network storage solutions. My desire is to have a networked storage setup that will help grease the wheels of inspiration so that no matter what machine I am on in my home, or even where I am at in my house I can quickly start working on a project without the hassle of remembering which machine it was on or if the machine I am currently on has all the right data and plugins to run what I need to run. This turned into a rather large but fun distraction for a few weekends and then a pretty big distraction when I started building it. A few months ago I read the article Backup and Archive Solutions for Musiciansand it got me thinking of how I could potentially use local network storage to hold my projects and libraries in one location instead of spreading it out among my Mac, PC, and Mac Laptop.

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