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Product Specifications
General
BrandLinksys
Hard Drive
Hard Drive InterfaceUSB 2.0
Product Features
- 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet port for incredibly fast file transfers to Gigabit capable routers or switches
- Two USB ports for additional connection to external USB hard drives
- Two SATA hard drive bays
- UPnP Certified
- Includes Ethernet cable
- Includes power adapter with power cord
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Linksys by Cisco Media Hub--Home Entertainment Storage--Includes One 500 GB Hard Drive (Model NMH305 EU)
With the revolutionary new Linksys by Cisco Media Hub you can access and stream your digital music, photos, and videos throughout your home. Much more than a mere hard drive, it’s an intelligent storage and file server device that’s designed to aggregate media from your PCs and other storage devices. Includes two hard drive bays. With the Linksys by Cisco Media Hub it’s easy to view and listen to your digital memories on any PC, laptop, or TV (with a UPnP compatible media player) in the house. The Media Hub consolidates songs from the same album but stored on different PCs into one virtual album. And when you’re traveling or away from home, you or your family and friends can remotely access your media from anywhere in the world through an available Internet connection. Now you can upload and instantly share your digital photos or listen to your entire music library right from the Internet without lugging around a hard drive. Remote access is available free from Cisco for the first 12 months after you sign up (thereafter fees may apply). Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs also include automatic backup software so you can save your treasured photos, music, and videos in one device should your computers ever crash or are stolen. Media Hubs have also been engineered to be automatically recognized and accessed by Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio components, so you can get your digital music off of your PCs and playing throughout your home.
Introducing Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs
You love your media, so treat it well. The Media Hub makes it easy to organize, access, and share your digital video, photos, and music--around your home and around the world. With massive capacity, intelligent aggregation, and media-optimized sharing and file-serving capabilities, it’s an ideal way to manage your material, enjoy your entertainment, and share your memories. Show your media how much you love it--give it a Hub.
Store Your Treasured Files
Find It, Store It, Access It.
The Linksys by Cisco Media Hub finds your files where they live on your home network. Got three songs on your laptop and the rest on another computer? It’ll find them and organize them by artist and album. Same for your photos, movies, and documents. So your files are accessible and orderly, in one place, whether you’re at home or on the road.
Share With Family & Friends
Web Access--It’s a digital photographer’s dream. If you shoot a lot of photos and have had issues emailing them, then the Media Hub offers you a better way. Thanks to our remote access hosted by Cisco, you can give out your Media Hub’s Web address so friends and family can view your photos in the same place.
Remote Streaming and Downloads
Music fans know that their favorite songs are more enjoyable when they’re accessible. Imagine if you could set the mood anywhere you go with just the right track or DJ a party without bringing a thing. Movie buffs and home videographers can also upload and download wherever they go. So no one has to miss those first steps.
Now Playing: 3 HD Streams at Once
Play your media around your house. The Media Hub is capable of streaming three simultaneous high-definition video streams. So you can have a dance party in the living room, a photo slideshow in the family room, and movies for the little guys in the basement.
Automatic or On-Demand Backup
Photos, home movies, and precious documents are irreplaceable. But they’ll be safer and more secure with timed automatic backup. The files in the folders you choose can be automatically copied to the Media Hub on a recurring basis. So you never have to think about backing them up again.
Expandability
You’ve got options. Use your own hard drive, or choose one of ours. Media Hub models are available with hard drives and there’s an extra drive bay so you can add another hard drive. Depending on your hard drive configuration, you can have room enough to fill your Media Hub with hundreds of thousands of photos or music files, and hundreds of hours of movies.
How Does Streaming Work?
The Media Hub plugs into your wireless router and then streams your files:
With the revolutionary new Linksys by Cisco Media Hub you can access and stream your digital music, photos, and videos throughout your home. Much more than a mere hard drive, it’s an intelligent storage and file server device that’s designed to aggregate media from your PCs and other storage devices. Includes two hard drive bays. With the Linksys by Cisco Media Hub it’s easy to view and listen to your digital memories on any PC, laptop, or TV (with a UPnP compatible media player) in the house. The Media Hub consolidates songs from the same album but stored on different PCs into one virtual album. And when you’re traveling or away from home, you or your family and friends can remotely access your media from anywhere in the world through an available Internet connection. Now you can upload and instantly share your digital photos or listen to your entire music library right from the Internet without lugging around a hard drive. Remote access is available free from Cisco for the first 12 months after you sign up (thereafter fees may apply). Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs also include automatic backup software so you can save your treasured photos, music, and videos in one device should your computers ever crash or are stolen. Media Hubs have also been engineered to be automatically recognized and accessed by Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio components, so you can get your digital music off of your PCs and playing throughout your home.
Introducing Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs
You love your media, so treat it well. The Media Hub makes it easy to organize, access, and share your digital video, photos, and music--around your home and around the world. With massive capacity, intelligent aggregation, and media-optimized sharing and file-serving capabilities, it’s an ideal way to manage your material, enjoy your entertainment, and share your memories. Show your media how much you love it--give it a Hub.
Store Your Treasured Files
Find It, Store It, Access It.
The Linksys by Cisco Media Hub finds your files where they live on your home network. Got three songs on your laptop and the rest on another computer? It’ll find them and organize them by artist and album. Same for your photos, movies, and documents. So your files are accessible and orderly, in one place, whether you’re at home or on the road.
Share With Family & FriendsWeb Access--It’s a digital photographer’s dream. If you shoot a lot of photos and have had issues emailing them, then the Media Hub offers you a better way. Thanks to our remote access hosted by Cisco, you can give out your Media Hub’s Web address so friends and family can view your photos in the same place.
Remote Streaming and Downloads
Music fans know that their favorite songs are more enjoyable when they’re accessible. Imagine if you could set the mood anywhere you go with just the right track or DJ a party without bringing a thing. Movie buffs and home videographers can also upload and download wherever they go. So no one has to miss those first steps.
Now Playing: 3 HD Streams at Once
Play your media around your house. The Media Hub is capable of streaming three simultaneous high-definition video streams. So you can have a dance party in the living room, a photo slideshow in the family room, and movies for the little guys in the basement.
Automatic or On-Demand Backup
Photos, home movies, and precious documents are irreplaceable. But they’ll be safer and more secure with timed automatic backup. The files in the folders you choose can be automatically copied to the Media Hub on a recurring basis. So you never have to think about backing them up again.
Expandability
You’ve got options. Use your own hard drive, or choose one of ours. Media Hub models are available with hard drives and there’s an extra drive bay so you can add another hard drive. Depending on your hard drive configuration, you can have room enough to fill your Media Hub with hundreds of thousands of photos or music files, and hundreds of hours of movies.
How Does Streaming Work?
The Media Hub plugs into your wireless router and then streams your files:
| The Media Hub's software interface makes it easy to view and play your photos, music, and movies right. | If you have a PlaySation3, XBOX 360, or other media extender/DMA, you can stream movies and slideshows from the Media Hub to your TV. | UPnP-enabled wireless music bridges or receivers, including Linksys by Ciso Wireless Home Audio systems, can play digital music stored on your Media Hub on any PC on your home network. You don't even need a live Internet connections |
Product Description
You love your media, so treat it well. The Media Hub makes it easy to organize, access, and share your digital video, photos, and music -- around your home and around the world (fees may apply). With massive capacity, intelligent aggregation, and media op
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
The one most important thing you want with a device like this is the knowledge that it will work and carry on working. I work in IT and decided that I wanted a NAS solution for home, did some research and eventually decided that maybe this would fit the bill. Setup was easy, transfering my files was easy as well but if you strip back the very colourful interface with all the nice large buttons and graphics it is actually a simple storage unit.
I even got as far as setting up my online access which is actually a URL controlled by the Cisco website, very good idea. Then, it all went wrong. I updated the firmware and that was it, the unit HD light just flashed, woke up next morning, contacted their online people via the website (very very good Customer services by the way) and they confirmed the unit was dead.
Now ordinarily that wouldn't be an issue but would you actually return this to be repaired? What would happen if the same thing happened 6 months down the line when you had everything on there? You would be gutted!!!! You just don't want a gadget like this being unreliable do you?
So, my experience was bad because of the unreliability, maybe I was "very" unlucky, if it had been reliable I would have said in this review that this unit was perfect for a home user, someone who doesn't really get IT, it's easy to setup, it's even very easy to access remotely but you cannot forgive a unit like this not being bullet proof, that's why you bought it and paid the extra for the name didn't you?
I even got as far as setting up my online access which is actually a URL controlled by the Cisco website, very good idea. Then, it all went wrong. I updated the firmware and that was it, the unit HD light just flashed, woke up next morning, contacted their online people via the website (very very good Customer services by the way) and they confirmed the unit was dead.
Now ordinarily that wouldn't be an issue but would you actually return this to be repaired? What would happen if the same thing happened 6 months down the line when you had everything on there? You would be gutted!!!! You just don't want a gadget like this being unreliable do you?
So, my experience was bad because of the unreliability, maybe I was "very" unlucky, if it had been reliable I would have said in this review that this unit was perfect for a home user, someone who doesn't really get IT, it's easy to setup, it's even very easy to access remotely but you cannot forgive a unit like this not being bullet proof, that's why you bought it and paid the extra for the name didn't you?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is a classy and upmarket device which allows the user to store and share files across the local network and the internet - either through the Linksys portal or directly through the internet if the WAN IP address of the device is known the router correctly configured. It allows music and video to be played with a home media player, addressed by ftp and also via a built in iTunes server.
Straight from the box the device works perfectly welI and sits there quietly doing its job with no problems.
But in fact there is one problem and a big one. Straight from the box the device works perfectly well. However, the interface does offer to upgrade the firmware to the latest version. In fact this seems good as it offers many new features, such as the possibility of using drives of up 2TB in size. Don't be tempted to do this. I tried and the update process failed after a long delay and I was forced to reformat the drives and factory reset the unit.
The Good
Good build quality
Classy and upmarket appearance
Works very well from the box.
Custom internet interface available
Front panel LED's display the status of the drives and network interface
Local network interface offers full control of the device with graphical display.
The Bad
The web interface is slow and a but clunky
Upgrading the firmware may crash the device badly
Other devices with comparable performance are available more cheaply
Takes some time to start up and be available on the network.
Starts up when plugged in when still switched off.
Straight from the box the device works perfectly welI and sits there quietly doing its job with no problems.
But in fact there is one problem and a big one. Straight from the box the device works perfectly well. However, the interface does offer to upgrade the firmware to the latest version. In fact this seems good as it offers many new features, such as the possibility of using drives of up 2TB in size. Don't be tempted to do this. I tried and the update process failed after a long delay and I was forced to reformat the drives and factory reset the unit.
The Good
Good build quality
Classy and upmarket appearance
Works very well from the box.
Custom internet interface available
Front panel LED's display the status of the drives and network interface
Local network interface offers full control of the device with graphical display.
The Bad
The web interface is slow and a but clunky
Upgrading the firmware may crash the device badly
Other devices with comparable performance are available more cheaply
Takes some time to start up and be available on the network.
Starts up when plugged in when still switched off.
Amazon Verified Purchase
Sub £100 and does so much. Simple too, run the software, fire it up and hook it via supplied LAN cable to your router and that's it. The client (laptop or desktop) software is also quick and easy and its a doddle setting up backups. The interface to view files and sort settings is a little clunky/basic but its also easy to set up access from a web page allowing remote access. Note you only get the one drive, it will accept any second hard drive of at least the same capacity and it just plugs in. You can have that as a mirror to the first drive or additional storage. As an iTunes user the iTunes Server software built in is another benefit. All the same there for Media Player if that's your preference. It even sets up shares for you by default and if you plug in external drives via USB to the media hub maps them too, automatically.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Limited use for me
Easy to set up and seems to be running fine. I had no problems with installation and no problems so far in doing what it's supposed to do as far as retrieving files is... Read more
Published on 19 July 2009 by Dragon0303
Easy to Setup, Simple to Use
For some the notion of setting up a streaming media hub can be more than onerous and fears are likely to put many people off even trying. Read more
Published on 18 July 2009 by S. Porter
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