Using USB Hard Drives For Disk Images?

anomaly asks: "I work for a fairly large company, and we're faced with the problem of maintaining images of hard disks for the hardware we use in our environment. We use Norton's Ghost for this process. We'd like to use a USB hard disk (because both the desktops and notebooks have USB interfaces) to store hard disk images, but Ghost requires DOS drivers in order to work. Does anyone know of a way that we could store, edit, and organize hard disk images as well as potentially installing the disk image via USB, or over a network? I suppose ideally we'd have some reliable, cheap network attached storage device (preferably in the $200-$500 range) - reliable in that we want to do 0 maintenance on these babies - so that many different hardware images could be stored and reinstalled as necessary. Any ideas?"