NASLite Network Attached Storage

I did not find a proper place to post this topic about a new NAS product idea, so I hope you forgive, if this is off topic in this forum.
I used NAS light USB and it performed very good. Now as the new hype is about virtualization, my question is, if this could be applied also to NAS light. I am sure this could be a real great product. The idea is, if you have multiple servers, most of them have lot of unused physical disk space, and could put so to work (basically a free NAS, disk array from all the pieces of unused disk in all your servers on the network). So if this unused disk space on multiple servers can be mounted on NAS light, and NAS light virtual combines all this multiple shares to one virtual RAID array. (yes, this can be used for non-time critical applications, like backup etc and not to stream live video)

Now the idea:
* run NAS light in a VM (vmware, virtual box, XEN etc) (have tested it, works with virtual disks in same VM without problem)
* but replace the physical disks needed with shared drives on "mapped" drives on other servers (shared virtual drives)
* for data security, create a virtual RAID 0+1 from all this mapped pieces of drives with NSA software
* this "external" mapped virtual drives could be drives made by TrueCrypt or similar for security reason
* some kind of management tool for this "external" virtual drives

This kind of products are appearing on the market, but not in a price range like NAS light. This would save a lot of physical HD.
Maybe I can convince Server Elements to come with something similar on the market? I would purchase it immediatly when in similar price range as todays NAS light.
Thanks for listening, Wolfgang

If you export drives on other machines via NFS, you can then mount those and reexport via NASLite-2. Take a look at the remote storage export capabilities of NASLite-2 and you'll see how it is possible to do what you are describing with the current version of NASLite-2.

For example, you can run multiple VMs of NASLite-NFS floppy disk based OS on multiple locations, exporting multiple volumes through NFS. You can then mount all those NFS exports through a VM running NASLite-2 and reexport them via all supported protocols. That way you'll see all available volumes on the remote VMs as local drives on the NASLite-2 VM.

Makes sense?

yep, makes sense, will check this out.

Thanks,Wolfgang