Well the Shuttle is 5+ years old, so all the technology has become scarce & components like ram & such are rediculosly expensive (compared to newer technology). Last I checked, upgrading the ram & video to make it Win7 compatable was gonna run in the ballpark of about $200-300. It has a good copy of XP on it & is more than adequate for a 10 year old to use for occasional web browsing, homework, etc.

I currently have THIS D-Link NAS w/ the (2) 2tb drives RAID 1 (mirroring), but sometimes the latency when copying from it to either USB hard drive or watching movies from them is irritating. This is the main reason for doing this PC/data server combo so I have the throughput of just the mobo....that & the convenience/smaller overall footprint of having everything in one case