Steve Fosdick wrote: In choosing my NAS I wanted something which: 1. Has low power consumption. 2. Supports the applications I want to run on it. 3. Is open enough to support further applications as time goes by. 4. Is neat and tidy. I ended up with a QNAP TS-419P which is the four bay unit based on the Marvell Kirkwood (an ARM SOC). ======== Good choice - I run a QNAP TS-109 (Orion) at home, and my work recently purchased a QNAP TS-119 (Kirkwood). Both now run Debian, but the supplied OS was surprisingly good, and I ran my TS-109 that way for about a year before recently rebuilding it (on a new SATA drive). The Debian install is very well documented here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/orion/qnap/ts-109/install.html http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-119/unpack.html Hope this helps! Simon