The 'Kiss' is equipped with a USB2 socket. I bought a 500gb NAS drive and connected this up and I can access all my music and photos from one place. This lead to a small problem, how do I update the NAS drive when it sits connected to the 'Kiss' streamer in the living room. I first tried to see if the USB NAS drive would be available on my network since the 'Kiss' sits on my wireless network. Unfortunately even using ip addresse it doesn't seem possible to map a drive to the NAS drive from my laptop or desktop PCs.
Then I had an idea how to get the NAS drive on the network (without rewiring the house with CAT 5 network cabling). I bought a box of Homeplugs which send data via the power circuits in the house. There are two speeds 85mb and 200mb - I wouldn't be updating the drive that often so I bought the "Twin Pack 85Mb Homeplug Ethernet Adapter" by Solwise for about £40. I connected one Homeplug to my router and one to the NAS drive and I can now see the NAS drive on the network.
This instructions will my NAS drive say not to plug in both the USB cable and Ethernet cable at the same time. I found that when I access the drive from USB the drive drops off the network. To get it back on the network I unplug the USB and switch the NAS drive on and off and hey presto. I'm happy with this, at least now when I want to update my NAS drive I don't have to move it.
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