I'm in the planning stage for an NAS. Here is what I've got and would love some feedback:

MOBO: MSI 945GT Speedster (unused MOBO from HTPC attempt)
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=945GT_Speedster-A4R&class=mb

Memory: Kingston 512MB (2 x 256MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) $30
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134194

Sony 256 MB USB (no longer needed by my daughter)

Drives: 4 x Western Digital Caviar GP WD10EACS 1TB 5400 to 7200 RPM $840
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136151

Software: NASLite-2 USB $30 (I just don't want to learn Linux so willing to pay)

Does this look reasonable?

Is NASLite just a software solution or will it be using the ICH7R chip for hardware RAID?

Will I be able to combine the four drives into one RAID-5 volume of about 3TB or will I be max'd at 2 TB per volume?

TIA
DJK

I think NASLite is just linux with a gui. I'd imagine that it can go either way with the pseudo hardware raid of the intel controller or true software raid. I just run software raid on my linux setup because it's plenty fast enough with low cpu use on a server and really flexible to move or upgrade.
-Trouble

You might want to move this to the Windows HTPC forum. There are lots of people who hang out there who also run NAS boxes and servers of all flavors, including linux, freebsd, naslite, freenas, unraid, etc. I'm not sure how much help you'll get with naslite as the most popular OSes, over in that forum right now for this purpose, are unraid, linux (using software raid) and the various flavors of windows server.

id say change to seagate drives.. 5 year warranty.. unless wd has changed theirs