bwfpbmltywdlcy9irfitrvhulu5bu01br0ldqlquanbnI spotted this device on ARIA and the idea sounds good, it allows you to plug in a USB Hard drive at one end, A Network lead on the other (which would go to your router let us say) and now you have a NAS box but also combined with this is a Bitorrent client which is on 24/7 and allows you to queue up and download torrents to the attached HD. The Price is: £32.14 inc. VAT- seems cheap enough right?

Description:

    Another great idea from the Storage people Darkstar.
    Basically turn your USB/USB2 Drives into NAS Drives
    and access them on the Network as Attached Storage
    This is the Single Port Version

    • Supports live device status monitoring via web browser & device software
    • Supports USB1.1/2.0 (Hi-Speed) specification
    • Supports 802.3/3u transceiver
    • Supports MDI/MDIX auto crossover function
    • LED indicators for Ethernet connection
    • Supports 1 SPI (HD-LANUSB01)
    • Supports Ethernet protocols TCP/IP, WSD, UPnP, Bonjour
    • Supports USB External HDD Enclosure, USB HDD Media player
    • Interface: 1x 10/100 Base-TX Auto MDI/MDIX, 4x USB2.0 Type A Female
    (HD-LANUSB04)
    • Interface: 1x 10/100 Base-TX Auto MDI/MDIX, 1x USB2.0 Type A Female
    (HD-LANUSB01)
    • Data Transfer Rate: Up to 5MB/s
    • Power Supply: 5V 1.2A
    • Supports FAT 32 HDD Format
    • Supports Plug & Play feature
    This is the Bit torrent Version of the popular USB-to-NAS Adaptor, easy setup from Web interface and and with the in-built Bit Torrent Server, which allows direct download to the hard drive without the need for the PC being left on! – FTP access too ..Great for SoHo and energy saving !

    INCLUDES:
    • 1 Port NAS Adapter
    • UK Power Supply
    • 1x RJ45 LAN Cable
    • Driver CD with User Guide

    XP Or Vista Compatible

There is a few things to note though – it seems not to support all hardware, it is funny about the format and it gets very hot if left running 24/7, so maybe this is not such a good buy? A Review written by one of the buyers goes like this:

after some fuss (reciving the non bt version) ive now recived the proper Nas Dongle with BT , its more silvery gun metal than the picture and has a very nice blue LED to tell you the powers on, also a network link light is there to help you out.

setup is quite easy , plug in the power, network and a usb drive and your away, i used a 16gb sandisk cruzer ( which was at a rather nice price on superspecials) which presented some problems initaly as it seems the Nas Dongle didnt seem to like the format that sandisk had provided. Once formated by the device ( yes it does that aswell) i was good to go with an SMB server (for shareing windows files and things) and an FTP aswell, i havnt used the media server yet as i dont have a 360 or ps3 to use it with, but the options there.

lastly theres the bit torrent support, the reason i bought it.
I had planned to have a super lower power download box( nas dongle + 16gb cruzer) and this worked great for the first few hours, then i noticed that it was getting quite hot, i trialed it overnight and noticed that at some point it must have gotten to hot and it had crashed.
Restarted this morning and its working fine again.

so if your looking for a 24/7 server it might be best to look elsewhere unless you live in a very cold house, but if you dont plan on downloading that much it truly is a magic server.

3 stars as it didnt do what i had bought it for , but an amazing device non the less.