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There is a distro called ClarkConnect that can be not only a firewall but a server...its pre-configured and has a web-interface to setup files and other services to host whatever you need
Its based off RedHat Enterprise (actually it is RedHat Enterprise with all the proprietary stuff just stripped out) its called CentOS very powerful, very rugged, very stable!

I agree though if you aren't up to snuff on Linux you will be having a nightmare of a time...but if you know Linux gurus..thats even better, but all in all ClarkConnect is very easy to use and implement.

I have had up to 7 home computers networked behind a Linux firewall, both Windows and Linux servers, and at least 5 client PC's

The absolute SIMPLEST way is to get one of those stand alone self contained NAS servers and just plug and play up to like 5TB of data...very simple...but can get pricey really quick! (or again with linux..build an old beater of a computer with alot of HD's and FreeNAS and viola!)

Here is a super cheap 1TB w/o raid-5 capability home NAS server
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Best NAS have 4 drives and RAID-5 striping available like this..but alot more expensive (but 1000x more redundant!)
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