[Nexxxeh]

Gigabit ethernet though, so network storage is presumably an option. The Pi suffers from relatively poor network throughput (although much improved since the first release way back when)but I'm assuming this won't suffer the same problems.

[makomk]

There's already a plethora of cheap Pi-like boards out there from various companies with gigabit ethernet that's not USB-based and other nice features, many of which have the advantage of having more established software support. If you're willing to give up features like graphics which this board also lack, you can even have a 100% open source software stack on them.