Some great advice. I was surprised no one suggested using the on-board raid controller for raid rather than the linux software raid. Some of the gigabyte/asus mbs have raid controllers supporting raid5 - seems as if more common among the P45 range rather than the 780G. However, the 780G boards do ha...

After a few days of research here, am starting to feel information overload. I am looking to build a quit and efficient NAS box and run a linux distro. It will run 4 x 1TB SATA drives as a minimum. Maybe run a db server, myth server and/or media streaming solution, possibly a portal server. The box ...