I personally purchased the QNAP TS-209 Pro and put a pair of WD 500GB as a RAID1 setup last month after looking at the various offerings out there. It had some of the best performance for the cost at the time. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30181/75/ Running it for the past month has been worry free for me. It is quiet, cool, and no problems insofar. It has more features than I will personally use (since I bought it simply for a NAS device) but it can do Media streaming (twonkyworks), rsync backups, USB printer sharing, External USB harddrive support, front mounted one touch USB key file transfers (plugged in a USB card reader for the various SD cards we have and worked flawlessly), Bittorrent and http downloading (haven't tested), web server, ftp server, and probably a few other things I don't recall off the top of my head. Big sell for me is that it is based linux (busybox I think) and I can SSH into it (which helped when I made an Oops and misplaced 300MB of digital pictures by messing up the directory naming). ~M~