HP Media Vault gets leaked

Darius Chang | Sep 29, 2006

Editors' note :

The HP Media Vault will be available in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan by early 2007. The 300GB version will cost US$379 (S$601.62) and the 500GB unit will be priced at US$549 (S$871.48). Click here for a larger image of the HP Media Vault.

First unveiled at HP's Big Bang event in Beijing, China, and placed under media embargo till the end of September, information about the HP Media Vault appears to have been let loose in the blogging wild.

When CNET Asia was in the Middle Kingdom, we had a sneak peek of the American manufacturer's first attempt at a home network storage solution--the HP Media Vault. Looking like a small-form a factor PC, it features dual harddisk bays, Gigabit Ethernet, three USB 2.0 ports and support for up to 1.2TB capacity. For the paranoid among you, this NAS (network attached storage) is also capable of RAID 0/1 configurations.

Despite the leak, HP will only release the official specifications and pricing after September 29. We'll keep you updated when we know more. Unless, of course, there's another leak out there.