[rektide]

It feels increasingly like wifi-routers and home-servers should increasingly converge. If you have such an expensive thing, why not have a fancy 8-core x86 system with a 5 drive NAS in it? Keep going, don't stop, make it the fixture of the network.

I think mainly this is held back by very few users being such power users. There's just not a lot of great ways to expose the power/capabilities to folk. Starting with some of the existing COTS NAS OS'es would probably be the best starting place.