ETA: Also, having read the rest of your entry, I find myself in envy of the NAS. Setting aside the parts where my desktop has become good for not much more than media storage and a vid-viewer, I've had to burn so many vid files to DVD or delete them entirely for lack of storage space, and there have been a few unfortunate incidents where the DVDs later turned out to be corrupted when I went back to copy the files for friends or rewatch them myself.
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ETA: Also, having read the rest of your entry, I find myself in envy of the NAS. Setting aside the parts where my desktop has become good for not much more than media storage and a vid-viewer, I've had to burn so many vid files to DVD or delete them entirely for lack of storage space, and there have been a few unfortunate incidents where the DVDs later turned out to be corrupted when I went back to copy the files for friends or rewatch them myself.