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Hi, After spending days/weeks analyzing the different NAS units, I settled for a HTPC or Mini Server because it satisfied best my requirements: - RAID-6 or better - Silent - Energy efficient - Digital 24bit 96kHz output - Spacious (I have 500+ GB of music) - Cheap My Setup: Mainboard: mini-ITX + AMD E-350 (CPU+GPU) - ASUS E35M1-I DELUXE www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=9BmKhMwWCwqyl1lz Case: Lian Li - PC-Q08 (fits 6 hard disks, using 4) www.silentpcreview.com/lianli-pcq08 Software: Ubuntu 11.10 ZFS on Linux (RAIDZ2 is even better than RAID-6 IMHO) MPD You mentioned reliable, which triggered my reply: ZFS was developed to prevent bitrot and with RAIDZ-2 it is the best solution out there. ZFS on Linux is still very new (http://zfsonlinux.org/) but it is based on the solid Solaris implementation. NOTE: From the comment above, you probably already gathered that if fiddling with computers is not your cup of tea, than I'd suggest to go for a NAS instead. As I do not own any, I won't advice on that. Cheers, Jeroen