SageTV Developing Effortless Linux Media Server on Flash Drive

The potential of this is cool, if even just to have a small SSD drive or something else to throw it on and save the bulk of your space for the storage. Gotta love linux and that "free" pricetag though.

GeekTonic

Since it will use Linux, there’s no cost for the operating system either – and you really don’t need much (if any) knowledge of Linux to run it either since everything is set up and handled by the USB drive. Even better you won’t need to use up hard drive space for the operating system so those hard drives will be free for storing and serving your media.