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HP Media Vault
Manufacturer	Hewlett-Packard
Type	Home server
Processor	Broadcom BCM4785
Frequency	300 MHz
Memory	64MB
Ports	Gigabit Ethernet USB 2.0 (1 Front, 2 Rear)
Power consumption	26 W (1 Hard Drive) 36 W (2 Hard Drives)
Dimensions	11 cm x 24 cm x 33 cm

HP Media Vault is a line of home printer and file servers from Hewlett-Packard that run a Linux-based operating system.

First Generation

Model	Capacity	Internal Drive	Drive Tray
MV2010	300GB	300GB	Empty
MV2020	500GB	500GB	Empty
MV2040	1TB	500GB	500GB

The Media Vault's processor is a Broadcom BCM4785 MIPS-based system-on-a-chip running Linux and BusyBox v1.00-pre2 based firmware. It has 64 megabytes of RAM, one Gigabit Ethernet interface, and three USB 2.0 ports.

The capacity of the device may be expanded using the empty drive bay which can house an off-the-shelf Serial ATA hard drive. The maximum expanded capacity of MV1 (first-generation) devices is approximately 1.2TB due to memory limitations.

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 SATA hard drive using HP's nasrecovery software.

Since the device supports standard communications protocols (listed below), it can be accessed by Windows, Linux, Mac, and any other OS that supports the needed protocols.

Protocols

CIFS
DAAP (only by user customization)
DLNA
FTP
HTTP
NFS
Telnet (disabled by default)

Second Generation

Model	Capacity	Internal Drive	Drive Tray
MV2120	500GB	500GB	Empty
MV5020	500GB	500GB	Empty
MV5140	1TB	500GB	500GB
MV5150	1.5TB	750GB	750GB

The second generation of the MediaVault products is powered by an ARM9 Marvell Orion processor, and has 128MB of RAM. It has 1 Gigabit network connector, and 2 USB 2.0 ports. There are 2 internal disk bays which support any off the shelf SATA hard drive up to 1TB in size.

Support

Lee Devlin was the hardware architect for the HP Media Vault and he maintains an unofficial support site for the device. 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 was also a Yahoo! group that offered support.

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