>> or NFS to fill such a requirement is a little like
>> using a blast furnace to light a bar-b-que.
>
> Well, there are boxes you can buy at Office Depot here in Boulder that
> are ATA drives that plug into the ethernet.  Wouldn't it be nice to
> take one home and plut it into your ethernet and go wild?  At least
> from a user's perspective :-)

none in Poland (could you point the name)? are there only ATA over IP? no 
filesystem support like NFS/SMB/others?