[TriLUG] Networked storage with 4 x 80G hard drives?

[Craig Duncan]

I have 4 80G IDE/ATA hard drives sitting gathering dust and thought that
there might be a way to create a networked storage device with some kind
of RAID configuration. Just sticking them into an old box is too bulky
and too noisy and USB devices are too slow.

Has anyone set up an external network storage device like this or
similar. Beyond small and quiet, my only requirements are that I can use
the storage from both OSX and Linux.

TIA, Craig