Sorry for the potentially ridiculous question, but I was curious if a standard box running 2k or 2k3 server would work as a "Shared Storage" device.

My goal is to simply purchase 3 cheap Dell servers, use two as Nodes, and the third as storage ( this will be a test environment only of course ).

Being a strictly test environment, I definitely do not want to spend 4K+ on a SAN device... I have read about using the FireWire external drive as a solution which I will assume will work for a Microsoft environment, not just Linux? ( I have only read of the drives being used w/ Linux nodes ).

Again, sorry for such a ... silly question. ( And hopefully I posted in the right spot ).

~Rob