[sa226]

I'm looking to build a HTPC to add to my home network on a budget. I have everything mostly taken care of, except for allocating storage.

Basically I have just shy of 2TB of storage, which is plenty for me but it is in the form of random hard drives that come in all shapes and sizes:

128gb SSD
750gb 3.5"
500gb 3.5"
256gb 3.5"
320gb 2.5"
and I think a 40gb 2.5 inch kicking around somewhere

My main PC is already using the SSD for the OS.
My plan was to find a decent 60gb SSD for the HTPC OS, so that both systems OS's are running on SSD's and then compile the remaining HDD into the main storage for all of the media.

What I'm wondering is what is the best way to put these random sized HDD's to good use? They would probably be inefficient in RAID, I'm on a budget, so I don't really want to build a NAS. Could I throw them all into my main PC and run them in the network from there? Can you compile them all so that they appear as one partition?

Thanks