The drive is available in two capacities: 300GB media vault costs $380 and the 500GB $550. Although this is mainly a network-attached storage (NAS) drive with media-streaming capabilities, they decided to name it like this.

The drives come with a single hard drive and an empty bay to add a second drive for more capacity or a RAID 1 array, as well as with backup and restore software and two free movie downloads from CinemaNow. It’s very quick with data transfer, and it’s a very good choice for a networked home user with much digital data.

The design is pretty simple, with a single USB 2.0 port. You can add any type of drive to the mpty drive bay except for IDE drives and installing it is very easy. Just plug and install the software. The folders can be mapped but it’s preferable not to change the names for the preset ones. Only audio, video, and picture files can be streamed, which is why HP recommends keeping all of that content in the MediaShare folder.