5watts is the consumption for the device itself, which includes 512mb of storage. An external hard drive would require additional storage. It's a packaged she

5watts is the consumption for the device itself, which includes 512mb of storage. An external hard drive would require additional storage. It's a packaged sheevaplug http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/develope... You can do the same thing using fuppes, an updated version of uShare. Fuppes also supports transcoding, uses a sqlite backend and can rescan watch folders to rebuild the database pretty quickly (either from cli or web interface, without restarting). I use it to stream to an xbox360 and it works perfectly. Haven't tried transcoding though since all my video is compatible.