Product Description

Does your family store, swap, and enjoy lots of digital photos, music, videos, and documents on your home computer network? HP Media Vault mv2020?expandable home network storage?lets you easily manage, share, and store everything. How much can it store? Up to 232,000 photos, 116,000 songs, or 145 hours of DVD-quality video. Also use MediaVault to back-up your main drive. It's the drive for your home network. Access up to three printers from PCs or laptops on your home network Use with wired- and wireless-networked computers in your home by connecting to your router via Ethernet cable Create automatic backups that can be set up to run weekly, daily, or continuously with the included software Protect your data with the RAID 1 capability Restore your PC in one step in the event of a hard drive failure, virus, or spyware infection Watch TV shows recorded with your Media Center PC on other PCs in your home Watch movies Increase capacity up to 1.2 terabytes with the empty expansion bay (enough to hold up to 500,000 photos, 16,000 hours of music, or 340 hours of DVD-quality video Compatibility - Windows, Mac-, and Linux-based computers HP Warranty - hardware, one-year limited; software, 90 days

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14449 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: MV2020
• Hard Disk: 500GB

Features

• 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

From the Manufacturer
Now there's one super-charged network media storage system for your entire home: the powerful, new HP Media Vault, which gives you the ability to easily protect, share and entertain with all your photos, music and videos.

Along with a 500 GB capacity, the dynamic HP Media Vault comes with an expansion bay for optional additional storage of up to 1.2 terabytes (TB). One TB equals 1,024 GB, so you can just imagine the plethora of digital space this bay provides--enough to hold up to 500,000 photos, 16,000 hours of music or 340 hours of DVD quality video (actual quantities vary depending on file types, formats, other factors).

Connect up to three USB printers to the vault and print from any computer in your home network

Protecting Your Media and Other Files
Envision one-step, worry-free backup of desktop and notebook PCs on your home network. That's the power of the HP Media Vault. And its easy-to-use software allows you to create automatic backups that can be set up to run weekly, daily or continuously--as often as you need.

In the event of hard-drive failure or virus/spyware infection, the product's one-step PC restore function comes to the rescue, allowing you to restore your operating system, applications and data on to a new hard drive. You're also protected via HP's award-winning customer support, which provides one year of 24/7 toll-free assistance after you purchase your HP Media Vault.

Watch the online demo

Simplifying File Sharing
Setting up and using your HP Media Vault is simple. A few quick steps get you up and running 24/7, and it's ready to work for you no matter how many desktop or notebook PCs are on your home network.

With the HP Media Vault you can effortlessly share documents and all kinds of media files while conveniently freeing up space on your PCs. Just connect your HP Media Vault to your router via an Ethernet cable to support both wired and wireless networked computers throughout your home.

It is also simple to offload data from desktop or notebook PCs on the network to free up capacity, and all files can be seamlessly transferred to newly purchased computers. Compatible with Windows-, Mac-, and Linux-based computers, the HP Media Vault lets you access up to three USB-attached printers as well.

Upgrading the Media Vault's capacity is a snap

Endless Entertainment
A giant one-stop-shop for all your entertainment, the HP Media Vault serves as your home network's central hub. It enables you to stream photos, music and videos to your home entertainment center and/or other PCs on your home network. The HP Media Vault even comes pre-loaded with The Bourne Identity and also includes a coupon for two free movie downloads from www.cinemanow.com. Among its many entertaining features, the HP Media Vault gives you the ability to:

• Start your home movie library
• View your favorite photos from any PC or notebook PC on your home network
• Listen to music and create CDs anywhere in your home
• Watch your favorite TV shows recorded with your HP Media Center PC on other PCs in your home network

The HP Media Vault is a one-of-a-kind product. Its enormous storage capacity combined with robust backup capabilities, file sharing and ability to stream hours of entertainment content around the home make it an invaluable asset to your home network.

HP Media Vault Software
Easy control center for configuring the HP Media Vault, scheduling backups and setting up media streaming. Features listed below can be accessed through the HP Media Vault Software.

• File backup: allows for continuous or scheduled backups of PCs to the HP Media Vault. Software supports saving up to nine previous file versions.
• Drive backup: copies snapshots of your networked PC hard drives onto the HP Media Vault.
• Custom configuration: Set up shared folders, shared printers, access privileges, network settings, and other custom settings.
• PC hard drive restore: In the event of a PC hard drive failure, the included HP PC Restore disc is all you need to restore a hard drive image of your PC--no need to locate your original operating system disc.
• HP Media Vault backup: Ability to backup HP Media Vault files to an external hard drive to create an additional copy of important files.

What's in the Box
Media Vault, power cable, Ethernet cable, software installation CD, Hard Drive Restore CD, set-up guide, warranty guide, CinemaNow movie download offer

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Customer Reviews

Slow Access
I like the idea of accessing my file from any computer on the network. I also liked adding my printer into the network. The con for this item is the sluggish file access and occasional failure to transfer. If up can live with those quirks this may be an item for you.

No Support and limited compatibility
Let's see. I can't use it to restore an IBM laptop and there is no software support for the Mac I'm using to replace the $2000 paperweight that is a brand-new T61P (did I mention that I will never spend another dime with IBM?). What does this work with? !@#$!@#$ HP's and Dell's?

HP Media Vault is UNRELIABLE
My HP Media Vault has been unreliable from day one. For starters the drive that shipped with my unit had areas of corruption.

The warranty is for only 90 days. That's right. HP want you to use this product to backup your most valuable files. And the quality of the unit is so high they back it for a whole 90 days. Way to stand behind your product HP!!

Remember that if you have a wireless network protected by WEP security you need to run this in user mode or give access to your files to your neighbors or anyone riding by in a car with a laptop. Unfortunately user mode is buggy and will lock you out of the vault or force you to reset and reconfigure on a fairly frequent basis.

The HP Media Vault is buggy and unreliable. So is the company that makes it.