The Nixeus Fusion HD Media Player is huge compared to its competition, but we like the reason for its hulking dimensions: You can drop a 3.5-inch hard drive inside its enclosure. Western Digital’s WD TV Live Hub comes with a drive, and you can install one inside Patriot’s PBO Core, but those boxes are limited to pricier 2.5-inch drives that currently max-out at 1TB. The 3.5-inch option lets you run far cheaper and far larger drives (up to 2TB.).And if you really want to go nuts with attached storage, Nixeus is the only manufacturer of the three to include an eSATA port along with two USB 2.0 ports (plus a third USB Mini-B port, so you can transfer files to an installed hard drive directly from a PC). The back panel hosts a 10/100Mb/s Ethernet port, an HDMI 1.3 port, optical and coaxial digital-audio ports, and an 1/8-inch A/V port that provides analog stereo and composite video on a single cable (there is no component video out).