HP Announces Low Cost Media Vault Servers
I’ve been dying to talk about the HP Media Vault Server, ever since HP showed it to me in October in a workshop. This low-cost NAS server is a linux based alternative to more expensive Windows Home Server boxes. In fact, that meeting with HP was the inspiration behind me deciding to build my own Home Server, particularly as I didn’t manage to score a free server as I was hoping!
The MediaVault mv2100 and mv5100 series come with either a 500GB or 2 500GB or 750GB drives installed. Also included will be two USB 2.0 ports for additional capacity, RAID 1 capability, gigabit Ethernet, and DLNA / UPnP networking (as well as direct-attached mode). The pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but it will be very competitive.
Networking my pad in 2008 will be a big project for me this year, as I’m looking to move to a bigger place. At the moment I’m researching home cabling as I want to put an ethernet port in every room, and I’m starting to evaluate what are the best ways to put media extenders/HTPCs in key rooms.
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Comment by Smackall on 5 January 2008:
Is that something similar to the NAS server you built?
Comment by Marcus the Critic on 5 January 2008:
Is this a Xeon based machine? Or the garden variety Core devices
Comment by Mark from Bloglyne on 9 January 2008:
So, no idea on cost yet? Also, is the top option 2 750 drives? Is it expandible to more drives?
Comment by Everton on 9 January 2008:
@mark
I don’t want to say anything on price as I don’t think it’s public yet. Yes, it has can hotswap HDDs