Was reading through the thread and I too have the same issues. Did I read correctly that the OS for this drive is based on Linux? And, that the issues with writing to this drive, after being formatted to NTFS, is due to limitations of Linux? Then why not the option to format the drive to one of the very numerous formats that Linux handles natively, i.e. ext2fs, ext3, ReiserFS, etc... That could be done through the web interface, and since it is supposed to be a NAS device, the type of file system should be transparent to the user. Also, the ability to manage the drive through the web browser, other than what is there now, check the drive and format.