New MvixBOX NAS Dishes Out 2TB of Web-Enabled Media Streaming
New MvixBOX NAS Dishes Out 2TB of Web-Enabled Media Streaming
Posted 10/29/2008 at 7:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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Mvix just released its MvixBOX WDN-2000, the newest NAS in the company's lineup. The two-bay device supports SATA drives up to 1.5TB (not included), or host up to 2TB in combined storage. The dual-drive setup can be configured in a mirrored RAID array, and both front and rear USB 2.0 ports ups the potential storage ante even further. But that's just the beginning.
A gigabit Ethernet port makes easy work out of streaming oodles of files, including high definition video, through your home network, and the device also serves as an RSS client, BitTorrent client, iTunes music server, or uPnP media server, along with file encryption for local ore remote access via FTP or HTTP. Still yet, the MvixBOX comes pre-configured with Apache, MySQL, SQlife, and PHP modules.
The MvixBOX is available now for $300 sans hard drive.
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Tekzel
October 30, 2008 at 6:29am
Speaking of linux boxes, I set up a FreeNAS box at work a year or so ago, it has 2x 500gb drives, using rsync to backup the primary to the secondary nightly, boots off a CD and stores the config on an old 512mb USB flash drive. When it comes time to update I just burn a new live CD, backup the config to my workstation, swap the CD out and reboot. Its a pretty sweet little system, I really dig FreeNAS. It has tons of features, including a torrent client which I have never actually messed with haha.
braindrainer
October 29, 2008 at 5:40pm
looks fairly impressive piece... with so many loaded features.
I think the key here is that all this is preconfigured and ready to go. Yes, you can do a build from scratch - but by the time you count all the applications, time and troubleshooting time... it will be well beyond this price.
I picked one up from Thenerds.com ($239) ... waiting for it to be delivered soon.
These things are selling on Amazon and Buy.com as well.
horzo
October 29, 2008 at 12:49pm
Pretty nifty little box, but I'd rather build my own Linux server. A little Celeron-based machine would cost about what this does with drives, and has a helluva lot more functionality.
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