I've found many NAS drives to have far better throughput than a server/computer, but of course, the more speed, the higher the cost. The other reason I thought a NAS would be good is that it will be running its own embedded versions of Linux and should be very low maintenace for him. No Antivirus needed etc... Heres a link for the product range that should suit http://www.qnap.com/en/index.php?lang=e ... 351&sc=513