Using G4 as NAS

I have an old G4 450 that I want to convert into a NAS. My thought is to put a couple of 1TB hard drives in, and set up a RAID1. I also don't want to have to hook up a monitor and keyboard to it. So, in essence I just want an external hard drive with a gigabit connection.
Does someone have a good strategy for doing this? Is it even possible?
Thanks!

Thought you may like to know....
I have a old G4 466 (Digital Audio) that I set up as a server and have had no problems over the last 3 months running with 5 hard drives. Hardest thing was getting them in (I had to for go the built in zip).
The G4 has currently 4 TB Seagate SATA drives + one ATA internal, DVD burner, G4 1.8Ghz Dual processor upgrade (which are supposed to eat more power than standard), a ATI 9600 Graphics card and a sonet SATA card.
Drives are set up as a stripped 4Gb RAID and it's been on 24/7 doing bit torrent stuff and and as a dumping ground from the old G5 Also for the last month it's been recording quicktime moves for 7hrs a day at 320x240px (That's 7 hours continuos at the same time as downloading - lots of drive activity . I've also burn onto dvd from the raid.
Power has not been a problem.
I'm currently looking at sticking in a extra ethernet card and Video capture card (which may test the PSU a bit) but will let you know if I have problems there!

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bought the wrong product, sorry.
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Send the unit back and ask for a refund.
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Oh no, no don't be sorry. It's fine; I just want to make sure I'm understanding this. I'm just utterly blown away how freaking complex it is to deploy an external media server for iTunes content. Apple products in general are so straight-forward, it's just such a strange juxtaposition to then not be able to do something that seems like it should be, frankly, rather trivial.
Anyway, that said, thanks -- and to everyone else -- this is helping quite a bit.
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I have all my music and itunes files (iTunes Library.itl, etc) on a NAS. I have an iMac and a MacBook. If I point each to the library on the NAS should I be able to use them both with the same library without corrupting any files? Eventually I want to use my MacBook exclusively for iTunes but I'm unable to do that for a while. Thanks in advance for any advice/suggetions.

This topic was recently discussed on this forum. I am of the opinion it won't have any ill effect on the files, but no direct experience. Another responder was concerned about file corruption, but didn't provide reasoning.
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