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Beelink GS-King X – $289.99 / £221 from Gearbest (roughly AU$399) This Beelink Android TV box comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, but can be outfitted with two 3,5-inch hard drives for total storage up to 32TB. The GS-King X runs Android 9.0 and comes with Google Assistant so you can control it from the comfort of your couch. If you're looking to upgrade your home theater with as much storage as possible, the Beelink GS-King X might be for you. Take a network-attached storage (NAS) and combine it with a high-end Android thin client and you end up with the GS-King X from Beelink, one of China's most adventurous PC companies. The box is not cheap, but the combination of features offers enticing prospects. As a NAS, it can hold up to two 16TB 3,5-inch hard drives (perhaps one of our best NAS hard drive guides), but we think it could use hard drives. 18TB, 20TB and even 100TB SSDs (Nimbus world's largest storage devices), but this has yet to be tested in real life. At 165 x 118 x 106mm, it's small enough to park behind a TV or under a sofa. The Android box runs Android 9.0 (with no clear path to Android 10 or the new Android 11), but it also features OpenELEC. The rest of the feature list includes a hexa-core Amlogic S922X-H processor with a six-core GPU. It supports HDMI 2.1, allowing for 4K output at 75Hz. There's a Gigabit Ethernet port, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, four USB ports, seven huge audio jacks, as well as a card reader and "mystery" button. ". Enhance". The device's audio subsystem is managed by an ESS DAC-ES9018 audio chip and a RICORE RT6862 op-amp processor. We don't know if it supports hot swapping or RAID-1/0 or if the fan that cools it ( runs on a 57 W power supply) is noisy.