Comments on: HP Media Vault mv5150 review

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:32:45 +0000

This is so cool. I have been looking for one place to store all my data- this just might be what I need, especially since it makes backup simple, is a good looking piece of technology, and has so many options!

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:53:46 +0000

Has it worked in the past or is this the first time you are trying to get it going?

By: ED

ED — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:44:50 +0000

Weel not my experience both of my computers one xp and one vista with a dlink 524 and Norton 360 won’t let me access the Media Vault 5140. If I take it to the ethernet port directly it see’s the media vault when I go through the router it won let me map the drive or have IE access. I nade sure discovery is working on the vista and allowed Norton settngs for HP Programs listed n the tech manual. I think the Dlink is DHCP is suspect?

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:47:18 +0000

If the full drive is mirrored you can not be selective. If it is not mirrored you can select what folders are important and to mirror them.

I did this via the GUI. The drives were created in non-mirrored.

Let me know how it goes! I don’t think you have to reload whs to blow away the mirror.

But I could be wrong!

By: Rich S

Rich S — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:28:08 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply. I will certainly provide a full report on how I use it, since I plan to do some interesting things. Do you recall if you created the drives (750gb) in Non-Mirrored? I think once you pick RAID you can’t undo without a full OS reload. Should I be managing it through the GUI or load the SW?

BTW Great Web Site!

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:19:04 +0000

Within the control panel you can choose what folders you want mirrored. Let me check when I get home and let you know exactly.

We would love for you to share your experiences with your new baby!

By: Rich S

Rich S — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:58:39 +0000

I just bought one of these based on your review, and its awesome! Above you mentioned
“I was also able to mirror specific folders from one drive to the other meaning I can make use of either two full 750gb drives or mirror one to the other or mirror some and use the rest for more space.”

How did you do the last option, where you mirrored some? My understanding is that if there are 2 identical 750gb drives, you have to create a full mirror 750gb mirror. Thank you again!

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:14:02 +0000

I would love to hear more about what you like about it! Any interest in sharing with the AtA readers jeff?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:37:47 +0000

I purchased one of these for myselff at home…LOVE it.

Am just now getting to the fun stuff.

Liked it so much I purchased a couple for our office as well.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:12:48 +0000

I love this. I just got it on your recommendation and after getting it going it is wonderful and fits in great with my living room equipment..

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:02:23 +0000

it is pretty quiet surprisingly.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:48:59 +0000

how quiet is it? the fans in NAS machines are often annoying

By: WackyWally23

WackyWally23 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:19:37 +0000

This thing looks really cool. I might just have to get me one admins!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:48:38 +0000

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By: Jenny

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By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:20:48 +0000

It does sound similar but it works out of the box with minimal configuration and runs linux. It is also uber small and looks good for a bunch cheaper. Last I saw WHS it was around $180 plus hardware or 2 250gb drives and a setup for around $300.

It depends on what you need, how easy you want it to be and all that jazz. Have you messed around with WHS? I played with the beta a whiles back but have not gotten heavily into it.

I would love to see a review of it!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:59:39 +0000

Sounds cool. How is this different from Windows Home Server? It sounds very similar.

Regarding the drive mirroring, partial mirrors is something Intel introduced into chipsets a few years ago. You can actually take 2 drives, make 2 partitions on each of them, and make 1 set of partitions RAID 0 and the other set RAID 1, all with only 2 drives.