[LAD] Suggestions for new HW

Hello all, Yesterday my main home system decided to 'meet its creator'. The power supply sort of exited in a funny way, producing unhealthy odors and some noises. I can still start the HW using a spare PS, but the / filesystem seems beyond repair, with fsck freezing the machine when trying to fix it - never seen that before. Strangely enough I can still mount it and was able to copy some directories from it that were more recent than the last backup. I wonder if it's just the file system being damaged or the disk HW itself. Anyway after 8 years it's probably time for some new HW, and I've been considering one of the 'Shuttle' boxes. Florian Faber already recommended them some time ago, but I wonder if anyone out there can report on them, or offer some advice as to which series to prefer, what to avoid, etc. TIA, -- FA