HP Media Vault Retired
After, not much over 1 year, I am retiring my Media Vault .
Having a network attached storage is a briliant idea. I am staying with it. It’s just the Media Vault product.
Slow death. After half a year, a small fan has broken and since then it became loud, I have contacted HP to get it replaced, but they asked me to ship the whole unit to them, even when I was perfectly fine to replace it my self. I said ˇNo, thank you˝. That was my first experience with HP Support for dummies (home user). Months later, I have moved to a new place with a dedicated computer closet and I bought a proper server, the ML110. From there, I started experimenting with OpenSolaris, which with ZFS and NFS - SMB sharing, it’s soo much better and extremely flexible solution.
Two 750GB drives later I have my first Sol(aris)NAS. Very nice creature and actually faster than the MV. Last week I started migrating data on to the SolNas, and today I’ve finished migrating clients to it. Nice!
MV is switched off, my energy consumption lost a 35W sucker and I have no idea what to do with it now. Just gonna leave it where it is. Maybe you want it ?
