My first system is an ancient Mini-ITX system with just 2 (mirrored) drives. I can't count on it lasting too much longer, though it served me well. So I hope to move up to the latest and greatest with storage I won't run out of for a long time. And I'd like to explore a bunch of other uses...

Dear visitors, this will be my first selfmade computer and I want to build something great and robust. :) It should work as a pure and encrypted NAS-system for storing my photographic landscape-works, music and everything else. Probably I want to run some VM's in the future - we'll see! Have...