Jax, curious any particular reason why you're leaning towards the dock/pod solution over the NAS/server solution?
I have both solutions implemented in some way and both delivers sonically and of course on convenience, with the dock/pod solution limited only in terms of capacity, but then again I'm quite satisfied even with over 4k lossless files in it.
Btw, I see you completed significant upgrades from the last time I peeked at your system. Nice!