Oh, don't take my ramblings too much to heart -- I'd probably have very similar complaints about most of the other NAS boxes on the market, if given a chance to examine them!

At least the QNAP has SSH access, so things can be fixed/debugged should the need ever arise (think, "empeg serial port", but for a NAS box..).

Apart from the "no ultra-high-speed way to get data out of it" issue, the box seems to work okay. Pity about the slow ethernet, but I suspect it's not unique to this brand/model.

cheers