Sunday, September 27, 2009

FireKing's MediaVault 500 Surprise

Well, there were two surprises when I got the MVHD-500 to review. One, when I discovered that the 500 GB were provided via two 250 GB hard drives. Separate drives, with separate USB ports. So, it's really a "dual-250". No ability to span or combine the drives into a single volume.
The second surprise was better: the drives are enclosed in great portable USB enclosures that have SATA as well as USB interfaces and support external power via a wall-wart if you want it. I've used them before and they are great.
Check out my review here, and my comparison of it with the ioSafe here.