The advatage of Music Vault NAS is that it runs the squeezecenter software on the NAS. This allows you to just have the NAS powered up by itself.
With a "dumb" NAS, you run the squeezecenter on your computer and it accesses the NAS. Now, you have a NAS and a computer drawing power; might as well loose tha NAS and just stick an extra drive in your computer.
I looked into this unit, but for $900 with 500GB, you could get a cheap laptop and hang a external HD of it and get the added benefit of a multi-use machine.
With a "dumb" NAS, you run the squeezecenter on your computer and it accesses the NAS. Now, you have a NAS and a computer drawing power; might as well loose tha NAS and just stick an extra drive in your computer.
I looked into this unit, but for $900 with 500GB, you could get a cheap laptop and hang a external HD of it and get the added benefit of a multi-use machine.