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HP MV2010 Media Vault 300 GB External Hard Drive
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; 300 GB capacity upgradeable up to 1.2 TB with expansion bay
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List Price: $299.99Our Price: $214.99 You Save: $85.00 (28%)Prices subject to change.
Customer Reviews
Rating:  - Run-do not walk away
The first drive could not be read with a password over the internet as designed. Hp's "fix" was to make the drives public. The replace drive had same issue, decided to keep and add the 2nd drive. Adding the 2nd drive crashed the 1 st. Media Vault can "see" the 2nd drive, but unable to access. Way too many problems, not worth the hassle at all.
Rating: - Great in theory, but if it breaks you're totally lost
Because this device is marketed as a backup drive, you would think it would be secure. Stable. Partitioned normally so that if the hard drives are working but the interface goes down you can just swap the drives to another media vault or an external enclosure - not so. The media vault partitions the files in an unusual way, which makes it impossible to continue to use any of your data if you need to switch vaults due to a faulty box.
This is what happened to me after about a year and a half of use. Everything was working fine and I decided this would be the best place to store my rarely used but oh-so-important financial data. I didn't see the need to store it to other computers, because it was stored on both drives of my HP media vault. When it crashed last week my first thought was "not a big deal, I'll just replace it with an external enclosure and consider a different backup solution in the future". Popped the drives in the external enclosure, and guess what, windows won't recognize the data because it is unallocated. The only way to get my data is to spend $500+ on a data recovery service.
I'm an HP employee myself and while HP makes a number of good products, I've learned you must always back up your back up and never put too much faith in anything. If you buy this product for its neat functionality, makes sure to buy a normal external hard drive of the same size and back up the media vault to this drive every day. Hopefully, if you're lucky, neither will go down, but DO NOT rely on this drive as it will fail eventually and then your data will be gone.
Rating:  - HP Media Vault no problems with iTunes
I have had no problems with the HP Media Vault. Opening up 149GB library takes less than a minute. No issues what so ever. This even connecting by Mac OS x using SMB to the vault. SMB is slow on any system.
I did delete all the default shares. Could this be the reason for the good performace. Very happy.
Rating: - Like it
I bought this item thinking it was a computer, but I still use it. It works great for all my storage.
Rating: - Very pleased for home/home office use
I've had the MV2010 for several months using it in a home/home office environment with XP and Vista PC's. It was easy to set up and has performed as it should. I've been very satisfied with this machine and have no complaints. Was also pleased to find out I could stream the CinemaNow movies through my daughter's XBox 360.
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