I've had two separate Shuttle machines break. The first one had defective capacitors which leaked everywhere and the second just mysteriously died one day. They might look nice but I'm not convinced about their long term reliability.

I know people that haven't had any problems at all with their Shuttles but the same can be said about HDs and my refusal to use Maxtor ever again. I think the count of Maxtors dying in the year or so is about 11. Not all them were mine either so it's not the enclosure or PSU.