i moved to a server admin role at work about a year ago and were super redundant with backups and everything is networked on the LAN so i can access it on any machine, most of my day is spent mapping drives and databases to faculty machines on a big college campus.
it got me thinking "my backup consists of randomly plugging in a usb drive and letting time machine do its thing, and a slew of other external drives for my music/movie/download data, it would be a lot better if it was always connected on my network and more centralized/redundant plus id be able to access it anywhere from an ftp/browser"

im building mine but there are plenty of off the shelf options (or plenty cheaper) at the same pricepoint (~$700) if you dont want to tinker around with it, drobo makes a good prebuilt nas with plenty of options

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