Many Meridian customers prefer high-end items, where the cost of one of these servers would be a small percentage of an overall system, and I believe that a reasonable number of those customers are perfectly happy to have a dealer / installer set the whole system up and configure it, so I thought it might be interesting to show what could be done on the high end.
I wouldn't trust most A/V dealers (of any type) to do systems level work like this. We get back to the fact that most won't have an appropriate background for either the installation or long term management of such a solution.
I've been there, done that with a Solaris based solution and ZFS, so I do know what's involved.