I had an interesting conversation with a buddy of mine yesterday about his PC. It started out as one of those ‘hey Tom, you know about computers, what should I…’ chats. He’s basically filled up his hard disk at home and wanted to know how he should upgrade. We were looking at the prices of hard drives, and then at new PC’s so he could turn his current one into a server, then I mentioned Windows Home Server, and so on…
We came to the conclusion that it didn’t really make sense for him to buy local disks any more. He’s got a wireless router, so there’s network infrastructure. He’s not doing anything that needs disk performance so speed isn’t an issue. And the cost difference between him buying a couple of big disks to RAID and a Home Server was small enough that he’d rather go the Home Server route.
I’ve done network storage at home for years, but that’s because I’m a geek and used those servers and an MSDN account to learn stuff. With Home Servers and things like Skydrive now making networked/cloud storage a realistic option for people at home, thinner computers like the Macbook Air make more sense. 
