July 30, 2007

AirLive Media Hard Drive With Built in BitTorrent Client

Well another media hard drive has been announced, this one from a company called AirLive, and we couldn't be more excited. We have said it time and time again that one of our biggest problems with using BitTorrent is the fact that you have to leave your computer on for hours while your file is downloaded. If it happens to be a big file your computer could be on for days. What bothers us is the amount of electricity that gets wasted.

Well with these BitTorrent enabled hard drives you can have a low power device do all your downloading for you while your energy hungry PC can stay in the off position. Another great benefit of this is the fact that once your download completes it will be available to any computer on your network.

Unlike some of the other BitTorrent enabled hard drives out there this one will allow you to use a SATA drive instead of the older IDE format. You can get a much larger, faster and cheaper drive if you go the SATA route so we love that they have listened to the public and allowed you to use either format in this new product*.

With the big media companies contemplating using BitTorrent for distributing some of their content these types of hard drives are going to become more and more popular. We are huge fans of the idea of having specialized devices in your home take care of things like this for you.

So you can have a BitTorrent hard drive running all day and use a program like Ted to stay current with all of your favorite shows. Hopefully the big media companies will realize this is the future or content distribution and embrace it.

* hard drive not included