HP Media Vault
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The Media Vault is a computer storage device manufactured by Hewlett-Packard. There are two generations.
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[edit] Generation 1
There are three variations:
- mv2010 comes with an internal 300 GB drive
- mv2020 comes with an internal 500 GB drive
- mv2040 comes with an internal 500 GB drive + 500 GB drive in the Drive Bay
The processor is a Broadcom 4785 MIPS-based System-on-a-chip running on BusyBox v1.00-pre2 based firmware.
The capacity of the device may be expanded[1] by utilizing an empty drive bay which can house an off the shelf sata drive. The maximum expanded capacity of the device is approximately 1.2TB, this is due to RAM limitations (The Media Vault as standard comes with 64MB RAM Soldered onto the motherboard).
One of the advantages of the system is that if the primary drive is lost (which includes some system software which works in conjunction with the firmware) the system can be restored onto a replacement drive (an off the shelf sata drive) using HP's nasrecovery software.
There is a built in Gigabit Ethernet card and a USB 2.00 host with 3 USB 2.00 ports.
Since the device supports standard communications protocols (listed below), it can be utilized by Windows, Linux, Mac, and any other OS that has support for the needed protocols.
[edit] Protocols
[edit] Generation 2
There are three variations:
[edit] Support
Lee Devlin was the hardware architect for the HP Media Vault and he maintains an unofficial support site for the device[2]. The site includes information on hard drive replacement , restoring a previous snapshot of your pc, photos of the device internals as well as setting up a Firefly/iTunes Experimental server amongst many other articles.
There is also a yahoo group that offers support [3].
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