External enclosures (advice)

[djBon2112]

I'm looking for a large external enclosure to save myself having to buy and configure (blah) a NAS system for my laptop (NAS = PITA on a school network). It's gotta have 3-4 (SATA) disks, USB interface (at least), and RAID 5 support. Anything else I don't really care about. Oh, and black is always better

Does anyone have any recommendations? Cost is a bit of a point (I priced a barebones NAS at about $230), but I'm willing to take any advice.

Thanks guys!

 

[xenotype]

Thats going to be expensive. native RAID 5 support for 3-4 disks will be at least 300-500 USD

 

[djBon2112]

Thats going to be expensive. native RAID 5 support for 3-4 disks will be at least 300-500 USD

That was what I was afraid of. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to figure out how to build and config a NAS!

 

[Dangman]

If RAID 5 wasn't a requirement, these external enclosures would be great:

SANS DIGITAL TR4U 4 Bay SATA to USB 2.0 JBOD / Spanning Enclosure - $155
AMS DS-2340SES eSATA VENUS T4S External Enclosure - $175 (Uses eSATA)