 - 2 Drive Bays/ Accommodates Any 3.5 Inch SATA HDD
- 2 USB 2.0 Ports/ 1 Front/ 1 Rear/ Gigabit Ethernet Port
- 500GB/ 7200 RPM SATA Internal Hard Drive Plus One Available Expansion Bay
- Marvell ARM Processor/ SoC/ 128MB DDR2 DRAM Memory
- Smart Energy Saving Hard Disk Drive Spin Down and Exceptional Power Consumption
List Price: $349.99
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Product Description: The Media Vault mv2120 gives you remote access to your files when you're away from home, automatic backups, media streaming across your home network, a photo sharing Web site, and expandable storage. This quietly operating network-attached storage supports 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet and both wired and wireless networking. Back up and share data and media across your home network, automatically back up important files Back up the media vault's contents to an external hard disk and store in a separate location Remotely access files and applications from any Internet-connected PC Stream media files to your home entertainment center or PCs on your network Share photos and files with friends and colleagues by creating a photo Web site on the media vault, you can also give visitors permission to add their own files Marvell SOC Processor 128MB DDR2 DRAM Memory 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) RJ45 Ethernet Network Support Compatibility - Windows XP or more-recent Microsoft operating system Dimensions - Width 5.47 x Height 5.37 x Depth 9.62 Amazon.com Product Description: With the HP Media Vault, you'll be able to quickly create a centralized storage and sharing solution for your home or small business that can handle your most important documents, photos, videos, and music--including the ability to integrate your home's iTunes digital audio libraries. The Linux-powered HP Media Vault MV2120 comes with an integrated 500 GB hard drive (7200 RPM) as well as one expansion bay, enabling you to effortlessly add another Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with a terabyte (1 TB, or 1024 GB) of additional storage or for RAID 1 mirroring. But the HP Media Vault isn't bound by the limitations of your wired or wireless network. With its powerful remote access features, you can create a URL that authorized users can access via a Web browser to download files. And with Photo Webshare, you can create your own online photo albums from images stored on the Media Vault. 
Add another 1 TB of storage to the HP Media Vault thanks to one SATA expansion bay. | 
The Media Vault provides access to all your networked PCs as well as to remote users via the Internet. | Media Vault Design
The redesigned Media Vault now shares the same black chassis design and glowing blue hard drive indicators as its bigger HP MediaSmart Server sibling. Measuring 5.5 x 9.6 x 5.4 inches (WxDxH) and weighing 7.1 pounds, the MV2120 is smaller than its predecessor (the MV2000 series Media Vault), and it switches to a horizontal orientation for storing its hard drives. Opening the front grille reveals a slide-out expansion bay on top, which can be fitted with an optional SATA hard drive. The front of the Media Vault also includes blue backlit icon indicators for power, network connectivity, and health of the integrated and optionally installed hard drives, as well as a USB 2.0 port. The back of the device includes an Ethernet jack (10/100/1000 Gigabit), an additional USB 2.0 port, and the power button. You can connect additional USB hard drives to the Media Vault for additional storage and backup options. Note, however, that printers won't work with the Media Vault as it does not include a print server. The MV2120 is powered by the Linux 2.6 kernel operating system and includes 128 MB of internal RAM memory. A Central Hub for All Your Files
Great for the home, home office or small business that requires a central location for files that devices on the network can share, 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. For music lovers, you can centralize your iTunes music library and playlists on the Media Vault for playback on any computer running iTunes on your network. And you can stream media files from the Media Vault to your networked TV and other digital devices for high-quality playback. You can access your media files from Windows-, Mac-, and Linux-based computers. The HP Media Vault also enables direct remote access to your files when you're away from home, or to others connecting from far-flung locales. You can create an online connection to your Media Vault from any computer with access to the Internet. Use it to access your media files while on vacation, a multimedia presentation from a client site, or to share your media with others. You can also authorize visitors to access your Media Vault remotely so they can view the file folders you have designated for sharing. And you can grant permission for visitors to add their own files to designated folders on your Media Vault. With HP Photo Webshare, it's easy to set up groups for sharing different photo albums. For instance, set up a photo Webshare so friends can view an album of your latest vacation; or allow family from near and far to add photos from your family reunion to create one blockbuster album. Protect Your Data
The HP Media Vault keeps your digital life organized, accessible and most importantly, more protected. With its 500 GB installed capacity, it stores and protects important media and files on computers throughout your home or small office. And with customizable backup options your files can be automatically protected weekly, daily or continuously. In addition, for ultimate protection, attach a USB hard drive to your Media Vault and backup the most important Media Vault files to take to a separate, secure location. The innovative new design lets you easily increase your storage as your needs evolve. Use the expansion bay on the HP Media Vault to add an extra hard drive for greater storage or the additional protection of a second mirrored copy of your data (RAID 1). For enhanced data security, use the expansion drive for creating a full backup copy of your most important files to store in a separate location.
The HP Media Vault Control Center provides easy management and configuration. | Easy Set-up and Management
The HP Media Vault Control Center software allows you to access shared folders, backup settings, and configuration tools. (The Control Center software requires Windows XP or Vista.) Shared Folders are the primary way of organizing files, music, photos, or videos and sharing them with other people. By default there are the five public preconfigured folders: Backup, Documents, Music, Photos, and Videos. These shared folders are accessible by anyone on the local network, and if password protected, can also be accessed remotely. User accounts can be created on the HP Media Vault for enhanced security and to provide remote file access. Security is increased on shared folders by requiring passwords and setting read/write permissions for each user. The HP Media Vault can also be utilized as an iTunes Music server, which will aggregate iTunes libraries from the systems on the local network and make one complete library with all music and playlists available to all iTunes clients. When enabled on a PC, the iTunes library on the PC is periodically polled to discover newly added music or videos. When new media is discovered, the files are copied to the iTunes library on the HP Media Vault where they are added to the aggregated iTunes library. (Note that only music files that are not DRM-protected can be streamed from the Media Vault.) What's in the Box
HP Media Vault, power cable/AC adapter, Ethernet cable, software installation disc, printed setup poster Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-05
Backing up the pics!
We're crazy busy with two kids under two. With over 10,000 pictures, our less-than-new laptops were groaning a bit under the strain of all those pics on the hard drive.
Bought the HP MV2120 500GB Media Vault a couple months ago. Initial set up was fairly easy. The drive is stuck back in the armoire with the router, so we can't hear it at all. It appears to run very cool each time I've checked. Everybody has access to it, so there are no problems getting the the pictures or video we want.
Haven't put a second drive in yet. Planning to do that soon and set it up to mirror this one - just in case. I'd also like to be able to set this thing up to view files remotely. Can't seem to get through the various firewalls, etc., but I'll keep trying! Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-20
If your home or small business needs back up storage with no hassle
Secure storage, file-sharing and backups are a concern for many individuals and businesses. SOHO applications in particular are often tricky, as price and convenience (as well as usability, as not everyone is an IT genius) are at a premium. A massive array of servers simply isn't an option often enough due to budget and space concerns. The solution? Well, HP has a new model of their Media Vault on tap for 2008 and it looks very promising indeed.
The mv2120 is a Linux-powered file server featuring Ethernet and USB 2.0 connectivity, and a 500GB 7200 RPM SATA drive. A second 3.5" expansion bay (with drive carrier to make installation a snap) allows for expansion of available storage space or Raid 1 redundancy. The USB ports allow additional drives to be chained to the Media Vault for further backup purposes, for example to remove a copy of important data to another location. The mv2120 is also perfectly suited for use as a streaming media server, allowing easy access to stored data from multiple PCs or entertainment systems. The box can even be used as a web server, allowing remote users access to files according to their access rights.
The unit is roughly 10x5.5x5.5 inches, making it extremely easy to find a place to store it even in the most crowded of situations. Pricing and availability on the new 2100 series are not known, but if you're interested in the mv2120 you can check out HP's website as 2008 rolls on.
HP MV2120 500GB Media Vault Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-19
Great concept, but poor execution
Let me preface by saying that perhaps I got a defective unit. I purchased this unit from Amazon and couldn't wait to set it up. Unfortunately, I've had several problems with it from the get go. I set it up and all was fine. Then I started copying my music and videos over from my PC. I happened to copy some files that were flagged as read only and those attributes carried over. Unfortunately, with those read only attributes on the files... I was then unable to delete those files with an error of permission denied on the MV2120. I tried making the folder a public folder with no restrictions and same thing. The only way I could delete the file was to SSH into the MV2120 and find the file that way and either chmod the permissions or do an rm on the file.
The second problem I ran into is that permissions on the folders doesn't seem to work right on this specific unit. I set two folders as private and created a userid with full access to those folders. When I try to view the contents of the folder through windows explorer, it prompts me for my userid and password. So far so good. I enter my credentials and can't get to it. This worked one night and the next it didn't. I tried restarting the MV2120 and rebooted my PC and same thing. Sure I can set all the shares to public, but what good is that if I want to remote access to these folders from outside my home network?
Perhaps I'm wrong to expect that this thing should be relatively easy to configure (and the interface is easy and straightforward but it doesn't work all the time). Sure i know how to ssh to it and know some Unix commands to do what I need with the files, but this really should be much easier to setup and use. Oh and I did contact HP support (once) and they were of no help to me.
I like the concept of this product, but sadly, will be returning this to Amazon in the next few days. I am inclined to try the WHS version to see if that one is better as I really would like to use this or something like this. Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-18
Good, but some serious issues
Update-Tried to add a second hard drive and lost all data on existing drive. Device was never able to read or write to second drive. Support tries but is not familiar with product yet. This device may be ready for market in another year. Right now STAY AWAY. Between the inability to add a 2nd hard drive and inability to access files over the internet as designed, product was returned. HP is good about taking returns.
For the most part this is a great little device. Sharing on your internal network works great. Backup is very well integrated. Problem is with sharing outside (or whenever you make a drive "private"). Worked fine for me for one day and after that any private drive could not be seen over the internet. HP support had no useful solutions. I really wish that all the makers of devices that are designed to be shared on a network would give you better instruction on how to configure your firewall to allow access. I got it working, but I had to manually add all the exe files. Even a list of the files that should be included would be great so I didn't have to search for them. Rating:
Date: 2008-06-18
Does what it's supposed to do
Have had my MV2120 running for a little over a week, it's supporting my Mac / PC network doing basic NAS and iTunes serving. Setup was a snap with the included software on the PC side and some simple networking commands on the apple side. I added a second 500Gb drive to bring the total up to 1Tb (not mirrored). So far it's everything i would have asked for - it's quiet, unobtrusive, supports any and all of my backup methods (PC side only so far)and was a good value for the price. Gave it four stars due to the slower read / write speeds. I'm on a 100mb network and have had other NAS systems in my setup that were faster r/w, the HP is a little slower from what i can see but not so much that i am unhappy with the device. I considered a Drobo when purchasing this but the price / value was what won me over.
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