- 1-year limited hardware warranty, 90-day software warranty
- Centralize, back up and share data and media across your home network
- Stream media files to your home entertainment center (requires separately sold digital media player)
- Access up to three printers from PCs or laptops on your home network
- RAID 1 capability; 500 GB capacity upgradeable up to 1.2 TB with expansion bay
Product Description
Does your family store, swap, and enjoy a number of digital photos, music, videos and documents in a computer network? HP Media Vault mv2020? Expandable home network storage? Allows you to easily manage, share and store it all. How to store? Up to 232,000 photos, 116,000 songs or 145 hours of DVD-quality video. Media Vault can be used to back up your main drive. He drives home network. Use up to three printers to computers or laptops to your h.. . read more>>
Another Weekend Warrior says:
HP Media Vault 500GB version is presented to me yesterday. As the following I shall return:
1 Mac Support – Yes, HP says that this product works with Mac OS X. What they do not tell (before buying) that they * not * support for Macs. I opened the box and saw the installation CD. I’ve shot my son, only to note that all files seemed to be Windows files. I have the box Mac drivers. I’ve scoured the disk, looking for a Mac folder. Nothing. I found one of HP’s support site, how a default “Connect to server can” at least the station. Big deal. I could do with a Samba network drive! But if the whole “back up your entire hard drive” option?
Assuming that I do something obvious, I finally called HP missed. My shock, personal technology , said: “We do not support the Mac.” He said that if I had apparently * not * know that Macs support. When I read it, and Amazon’s and HP’s website that it says “works with both Windows and Mac, “he said,” Oh, it works with Mac, we simply can not support. “(!!!) I tried to explain to him that is what is called” misleading advertising “. I have no problem from my rsyncing knowledge. It would be far gone in my decision whether or not to buy this product. When I rsync the data itself, not just why I just got an old machine, stick with the two 500GB drives and rsync for?
2 You really do not half run – when I opened the box, the first thing I was curious about the role that was involved in the Media Vault? Is Western Digital, Seagate / Maxtor, or my drive? So I tried to open the door only to see that I could not. Only one door opens, another is the wrong door. So when I spoke to HP tech person, I brought it to his attention. If I an extra drive is not purchased, I can change. I asked what happens if you drive each unit will fail? “Oh, just returned to HP and we provide a new hard drive and return it to you.” I was in more detail. “What happens if the drive does not guarantee?” I was told that if I have to pay. So if you think you can not just pop out and get a replacement disk, use a large object. Until no drive is also one you purchased, you can. If it is the only device, you must return it to HP, and will pay what it costs you feel. Direction…
< , br /> 3 can not ignore the doll itself, and replace. Well you could technically drive the screwdrivers as you all on the hard disk of a computer. However, a little mini-operating system mirroring is not used-chip ROM is in a position to accompany the unit. Furthermore, the mini-os (I think the tech guy said that a modified version of Linux) is not reflected in the other drives in a RAID 1 So when the first drive is not what is the OS, you have a very heavy paper weight! Again, you need to confirm this to HP. HP uses a proprietary operating system, and they do not give it to their site, so you can just download, install the new disc and pop in the machine. When you buy this product, you’re married to HP. I do not like this at all!
If the problem is only the first point I would happy to have given this product five stars (assuming that all other activities for at least a few months time). But the whole purpose of me having the information to be found in RAID 1 configuration is that if the disk fails, I pop and take the new one. Does not really have that option, saying: “That’s Not!
I’m everything I bought and just their own dedicated machine to back up reinstalling the network. You’ve been warned.
March 20, 2010, 9:56 amWhaledad says:
I have HP Media Vault yesterday and was quite surprised by the speed and ease with which I could forward it to good use. Connect the Ethernet cable and the power and turn it on. Browse “HPMediaVault” browser “Wham” You can talk about a built-in Web server device (the only thing you really need the current “band” to change the same as the settings for your computer). Or show “hpmediavault file sharing “and you’re looking for a pre shared folders (you can easily fixed drive letter to that folder on the Windows file manager). The root directory and a more open, even one of them is the FTP server is dead -simple. And it is amazing “hpmediavault media-share index. Roku SoundBridge and I immediately knew that folder available to the media server, without setting a Roku or the HP Media Vault.
Is not it wonderful when the technology just works?
HP Media Vault is also fast and has 1 GB Ethernet support. I will soon try to DV video capture directly on the device, and in good faith, they will do so without dropping a single frame.
March 20, 2010, 10:31 amCharles Morgan says:
Operating System Media Vault is unique in its own Linux change, which only uses the HP product, nothing else. The implications of this are the following:
two days of this product, your file and hard drive failure. This means that there was nothing wrong with the hardware, only software. Unfortunately this software can not be confirmed. HP’s solution is to create a new hard disk because the original hard disk unusable.
For information on the original hard disk is lost.
; You do not get any tools to save, restore it back to it. Nothing. HP can help you.
The product comes with software on the hard drive of your computer to restore, but no hard disk and restore the Media Vault.
Even more absurd Media Vault, you can drive half. However, if your Media Vault to the original hard drive to another location and install a new HP hard drive for first place, the device still can not read data from the original status.
This product does not meet the reasonable expectations of its customers. Can not do what computers can do for twenty years, namely the use of survival equipment of disks, such as fdisk, fsck Windows and Linux. Without the tools to work with HP drives. And both Windows and Linux computers, you can create a failed hard drive a slave to your computer, so you can read the data. You can not make this Media Vault. You can not even put a hard drive Media Vault Linux computer to read the data. It does not, because the nature of your operating system Media Vault.
For the first time using computers for twenty years, I lost data. I am very concerned about the HP very short-sighted planning for this product. You are warned.
March 20, 2010, 12:44 pmP. G. Wyman says:
I have owned and used HP MV2020 for about 30 days and has a very good experience with the device was. I use the device in the print media or legs – just like the data backup device.
I bought a Samsung 500 GB drive as another drive, and I am mirroring two disks and enhance security. If you plan to add another drive, it certainly check potententially HP webisite finding suitable positions – apparently all hard drives are equal.
Install another drive and it was easy to install the mirror was a bit painful – Read the instructions carefully. Mirroring over 196 MB, it took several hours – a plan the night.
Backup software is pretty good. I’ve set my back up My Documents, Desktop and Outlook files between two computers, when changes are made. My only complaint is that backup software if you want to save the file to your desktop and move them into My Documents, you can wind up two copies of the backup drive (s). I suppose that about one quarter of the annual My Desktop solves this problem.
All in all a well designed, solid product with good instructions, it does what it advertised to do – worth the HP (old) name.
March 20, 2010, 3:05 pmSub Zero says:
HP Media Vault is a fan that runs all the time, so I can hear the quiet room, but generally makes little noise. If the disk set to spin down when not in use, it takes a bit quieter (and save electricity). It has two green status lights, which are particularly bright, so big circle of light on the wall, when the room is otherwise dark. It seems very quick for the storage of files, and offers the opportunity to read them back. I have the software installed is not included, I was not able to determine the browser and use as a network drive without it nothing new to computers I use.
March 20, 2010, 3:52 pm