So the mystery of the VERY special pipeline has been solved? The other is actually infact a Thecus N1200 :o :D

Sounds cool. I like the idea of having a 4 port switch and a Mini PCI card slot in there.

It's not the only NAS to feature downloading applications though. My Qnap TS-101 can act as a BitTorrent client. I think it can also download from HTTP and FTP as well, but i can't remember for sure and am not at home to check.

Looks pretty sweet. might look into that, presuming it doesn't cost my first born :p

how do u make it download torrents though ?

Probably through the web front end .

The Qnap has a pretty cool interface for doing this. haven't tried it in earnest, just had a little explore.