Distributed storage [closed]

I've been there, not wanting to "waste" what appears to be good storage. It's not "good", it's a fool's errand trying to use that storage as anything but local. The system would have to keep a full copy of everything on every machine, as it would never know what machine is going to be turned on/off. The replication traffic alone would make a noticeable impact on your network.

If you really want to use those disks, pull them out of the workstations (PXE boot the workstations) and use the disks in a SAN (there are many reasons against using consumer grade disks in a SAN too!)