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The mini computers in most NAS devices are fairly basic... as in... a Rapsberry Pi is possibly more powerful.
You can use a NAS as a basic streaming device, so something like the Squeezecenter is fine to run on it. But when you start talking about an advanced streaming device or having remote access you'll fine the software packages are either not available or merely an after-thought that barely work.
Really, you should only think of a NAS as a drive you can share across many machines, and which may offer some RAID which means if a drive fails you don't lose everything (but it's not a backup, as a virus could still wipe everything and delete replicates across multiple RAID drives really well).
Then... anything else you get for free is just a bonus rather than the reason to buy it.
It starts to become much cheaper to think of getting a basic NAS and a very small headless mini-PC to do server type stuff.