A little update for this topic.
I'm still very interested in a high end, "more capable", NAS device. As Team-ASA is not willing to ship less then 100 pieces at once, and interest of other people is not what I hoped for, I am giving my hope to get one of these devices up.
So I've started to look elsewhere and compiled a list of interesting devices: High end NAS comparison.
Of the current "capable" devices, the Infrant ReadyNAS X6 is the most interesing because of it's well tuned firmware and good performance. However, this device is rather costly in Europe as one has to pay 460 GBP (around 680 Euro) for a barebone version (no harddisks): http://www.eaegis.net/.
Apart from the ReadyNAS, the Newisys NA-1400 is a promising product, but it's not available yet. Let it be marketing blabla, but Newisys promises "best of class" performance and reports up to 22 MB/s performance on it's website. This brings it roughly up to par with the ReadyNAS but will cost significantly less: 400 to 500 Euro for a barebone version. Besides the two gigabit ports and hot-swap harddisks, this is the major reason for me to buy a Newisys NA-1400. In anticipation of this device being shipped (Newisys promised shipment around the end of October), I've started an wl-500g.info like site: http://www.na1400.info
I hope to see you there sometime and maybe you can tell me what you think about it.
Edit: updated the excl. FAT price of the ReadyNAS to incl. FAT
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