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My father has been looking into getting a mirra home server to add to our network. I think he wants to use it to store photos and music mainly and for the ability to access the data from anywhere with a connection. Now I'm wondering if I could build him a server of equal performace for less or even better performance for the same cost. I have access to windows server 2003 enterprise edition so I guess I could use that. Would windows server perform those functions? Any info on home servers would be great.

Uhh, no server you build will get you this:
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Then again, you could just build some RAID-XL server and get something similar.