NAS drive recommendations for use with MPB, PS3, APX and time machine?

Hello,
I am looking to get a 1TB NAS drive and then partition about 400mb for time machine and the other 600mb will basically serve as a media/itunes server.
Wondering what recommendations you have and anything to look for in the product details? Is bittorrent an important feature? usually I just use the client on my computer and save to an external drive but maybe thats inefficient.
I don't need raid, try to keep the cost down
thanks

Hi Rhett, if you post this in the 'Time Machine' category, you might get faster response and plenty suggestions.

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