Power Mac G4 Quicksilver as NAS

So I've had a G4 867 for a couple of years that I've been running headless, basically as a poorly configured and overpowered NAS host.  I've got HDD from my previous G4 Cube and other machines tucked into the tower and they hold my wife's iTunes library, our iPhoto library and other things.
One issue with this machine is that none of the four drives are bigger than 80GB, and I would like to get some bigger drives to consolidate things, and provide a Time Machine backup location for my wife's MacBook that her school district gave her.
My questions are: is the better choice to find some PATA drives (250 or 320) and use those, or to buy an SATA card and get that kind of drive?  I know neither format is cheap these days, but I don't want to lose our 6000+ photos and days of music files.  Second, do I need to be running Mac OS 10.5.8 on this beast, or should I be running MacOS Server of some flavor for an NAS application, or something else entirely?
I did recently have one of my employees give me a Windows machine that "wasn't working" and I was going to uuse FreeNAS on it, but I'm going to give it to my parents instead (they're Windows users... <shudder>)...
Thoughts?
Thanks.

Is that a QS/867 or an MDD/867?
The QS/2001 can only natively/officially use 128 GB drives.
Can officially support two Ultra ATA/66 hard drives on the original bus (more drives can be supported with a third-party controller PCI card). Officially, drives larger than 128 GB are not supported. However, third-parties have discovered that this system will natively support hard drives larger than 128 GB, when running MacOS X 10.2 or higher. Ultra ATA/100 hard drives are backwards compatible with the Ultra ATA/66 standard.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_867_qs.html
Cheap 250 GB drives here...
250GB Western Digital Caviar SE IDE/ATA 8MB Cache 7200RPM: Factory Recertified. 1 Year OWC Warranty
Be sure you have 2 or 3 backups of those 6000+ photos.
I don't think you need Server for what you're doing.

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          IPv6:
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          Number of Outputs: 4
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          Device ID: 0x0035
          Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x17c6
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          Revision ID: 0x0041
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          Vendor ID: 0x1033
          Device ID: 0x0035
          Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x17c6
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        pci17c6,e1:
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              Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
              Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
              Sleep On Power Button: Yes
              Automatic Restart On Power Loss: Yes
              Wake On AC Change: No
              Wake On LAN: Yes
              Wake On Modem Ring: Yes
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          PCI Revision ID: 0x0043
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          PCI Vendor ID: 0x1033
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          PCI Revision ID: 0x0041
          PCI Vendor ID: 0x1033
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          PCI Revision ID: 0x0041
          PCI Vendor ID: 0x1033
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          PCI Revision ID: 0x0002
          PCI Vendor ID: 0x1033
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              IPv4:
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              IPv6:
                  Configuration Method: Automatic
              Proxies:
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                  FTP Passive Mode: 1
                  Auto Discovery Enabled: 0
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                  Display Terminal Window: 0
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                  Redial Interval: 5
                  Use Terminal Script: 0
                  Dial On Demand: 0
                  Disconnect On Fast User Switch: 1
                  Disconnect On Idle: 1
                  Disconnect On Idle Timer: 600
                  Disconnect On Logout: 1
                  Disconnect On Sleep: 1
                  Idle Reminder: 0
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                  IPCP Compression VJ: 1
                  LCP Echo Enabled: 1
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                  LCP Echo Interval: 10
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                  Verbose Logging: 0
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              IPv6:
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              AppleTalk:
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                  FTP Passive Mode: 1
                  Gopher Proxy Enabled: 0
                  HTTP Proxy Enabled: 0
                  HTTPS Proxy Enabled: 0
                  RTSP Proxy Enabled: 0
                  SOCKS Proxy Enabled: 0
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              Hardware (MAC) Address: 00:0a:95:ff:fe:9c:64:40
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              IPv6:
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                  ExcludeSimpleHostnames: 0
                  FTP Passive Mode: 1
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                  JoinMode: Automatic
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          Modulation: V.92
          SKU Name: UCJ
          Hardware Version: 1.0F
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    Still not sure what Mac you have, but do you have a multimeter?
    You can convert an ATX PSU for use on a G4...
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    http://atxg4.com/quicksilver.html
    http://atxg4.com/mdd.html
    http://atxg4.com/
    Hank, have you tested the MDD PSU?
    http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/D275729F-09DA-4FBB-96B3-BEEEB2C 04619.html

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