What's impractical about it? It's very cheap and easy, and hey, maybe you don't need a faster file server. Hell, some of us with the money and expertise to setu

What's impractical about it? It's very cheap and easy, and hey, maybe you don't need a faster file server. Hell, some of us with the money and expertise to setup an uber-NAS go with the Pi precisely because it suits our needs just fine.