Un NAS è sostanzialmente un piccolo computer che assolve unicamente le funzionalità di file server e, in taluni casi, anche di print server. Piccolo, silenzioso e molto parco nei consumi energetici, deve il suo ingombro quasi esclusivamente allo spazio necessario per ospitare uno, due o anche quattro hard disk. Basato nella quasi totalità dei casi su una distribuzione Linux orientata alla gestione delle memorie di massa e all’ottimizzazione del file transfer, è studiato per un uso pressoché continuativo e per essere accesso full time. Il modello provato è il Sitecom Home Storage Center MD-253...

Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player. While primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems, elisa also currently support Microsoft Windows. Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework. In addition to personal video recorder functionality (PVR) and Music Jukebox support, Elisa will also interoperate with devices following the DLNA standard like Intel’s ViiV systems.

Deluge is a full-featured free opensource BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and PyGTK for it’s user interface. Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge’s functionality is available in the form of plugins. Deluge is not designed for any one specific desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.