These days, network storage devices are a dime a dozen. To be honest, when I first came across the “Kuro Box”, I thought that this was pretty much another run of the mill network storage device.

After reading through Tom’s review closely, it looks like it is a pretty decent network storage device. Myself, I use a separate PC for such things. It works well for me and I have found little reason to change. If you do not have another PC that you can use for storage, then this unit might be just what you are looking for.

If you’re interested in embedded Linux, there are a lot of little devices to experiment with these days. Everything from routers to access points to network storage appliances are available at your local electronics store. I’ve been spending a lot of time lately making Linksys’ consumer Network Storage Device, the NSLU2 [reviewed here], do tricks it was never intended to do. [Ed. note: Read Jim's Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 series starting here.] This time, however, I’m going to look at a similar Linux-based device that the manufacturer built to be hacked.