My plans for a Debian file server

While I do have systems filling multiple roles I intend to redesign most of the technological infrastructure inside of my home.  The first phase is to setup the required servers to handle the tasks I have set out for phase one.

The first machine to go online will be a machine called kirk, it will act as the central nervous system for the whole setup, it will need to offer light redundancy at the fastest possible speeds within my budget.  The primary focus of this machine will be NAS, secondary functions are important as well such as an outside facing web server, internal DNS resolution and other interesting services.

All of the hardware I don't have but need to acquire, I've decided to exclusively use the 4 week to ship vendors from Hong Kong, and China to keep the costs as low as possible.  I find the quality to be acceptable and it always seems to fit my needs.  I'm of course using eBay to fill the voids of hard to find hardware.

The first step in this endeavour will be to assemble and test the hardware.  Currently here is what's planned for kirk (yes, I plan to use Star Trek captain's names as servers):