Music Servers are they good?


I am considering selling my Onix cd player and purchasing a Music server like the Yamaha CDR-HD1500. The 200GB hard drive should be plenty for me, but I don't have any experience with any music servers. I can get the Yamaha new for $600.00 which is about the most I want to spend. I don't care to make copy's, just store my cd collection for the convenience. I am going to eventually use a high quality $1000+ dac so optical and rca digital outs are a must.

If there are better for about the same price please let me know. I am looking for suggestions from people that are doing the same.
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I am building a TDA1541/S2 dac and I have two other dacs. I want something to make my life simpler. I have about 200 cd's and would like to borrow more and put them on some sort of hard drive system without compression. I want to make it simple and easy for anyone to use. I do like the fact that the Yamaha is compact and has a drive built in, but I am sure there are others. A computer should work well, but what about digital outputs (rca and optical)? The computer may also be a little bit more difficult to use.
I am building Pedja Rogic's dac. I also have Thomas' TDA1541 dac ver. 2 from diyAudio and one more that uses the same dac chip as the Timbre unit (can't think of the name). I built DIY Paridise's Monica about a year ago when I built the DIY cd transport with the cd-pro unit. I sold them and bought an Onix XCD-99, but have always tossed around the idea of a Sony CD changer with a digital out. This music server thing really has me thinking it is by far the best solution for me. I want both rca and the toslink digital outs. My dac with the crystal chip is only optical in.

Thanks for all the info. The pc or mac thing may be my best option. I have a wireless network in my home and could then sent info to the music server.

I have iTunes on my laptop pc. I have only used it for mp3's.