The specs on the iMac sound pretty sweet.
So in regards the the RAID stuff not being expandable while maintain data, do you just mean that you can't access data while it's restriping? If you don't want to restripe you can always create a new array when you expand, the same as adding a drobo...
Carl so far you seem like you're on the right track.
If I were going to do something similar at my own place, I'd split things up. 1 resource heavy machine, and one NAS solution.
I'd have a main server that was CPU/RAM heavy, say at least a dual 8 core processors, and at least 64g of ram...
I just got home and read it quick, I can definitely give you some suggestions on direction with storage specifically. I'll try to post up after the kids go to bed or worst case tomorrow from work. :thumbup:
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