$14K Media Server Coughs Up HD Goodness
Looking to dump huge loads of cash into a media server? Try Imerge's MS1.
Looking for the ultimate solution for storing and distributing your HD media? Starting around $14,000 you can own what Imerge calls the world's most advanced media server: the MS1. This media center is ideal for consumers who have a large collection of HD movies and audio files at home, and for businesses that need to distribute hi-def content to company employees.
Imerge's media beast supports unencrypted DVD video, DVD and Blu-ray video. It can be configured as a master or client, and is easy to install thanks to self discovery. Other features include near silent operation, audio over HDMI, a rack mounting option, and more. Users can access the server remotely on the network using a browser.
As for media storage, Imerge's XiVASafe storage solution compliments the MS1, offered in eSATA and iSCSI configurations (with storage capacities of up to 12 TB). On the iSCSI front, this setup features data center grade reliability and performance, RAID 6, hot swappable fans, UPS integration, and more. The ESATA version provides high performance for a relatively low cost, RAID 1 mirrored security, and even includes a rackmount kit.
Head here to find out where you can purchase the Imerge MS1 media server.
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This thing is severely overpriced. I managed to build a 6TB Raid-6 media server for 3,000$. It doesent have quite as many bells and whistles but it certainly gets the job done.
I think that you should have said that it oozes HD goodness rather than coughs up. Better imagery IMO.
I'm curious as to their sales numbers and if they have a realistic target. I mean, I know we (company) would never invest in one, but I'm slightly curious as to what companies would.
or i can build something MUCH cheaper running xbmc
Zotac MAG (~$300) hooked up to each tv
Thecus NAS ... price depends on how many drives and what not .. but i built my friend a ~11TB server for around $2000
hmm, lets see ... 2000+300 ... as far as i can tell thats a smiggen under 13k
Starting around $14,000 There are very few people who would ever consider this, i bet under 1%.
Really... couldn't i build the most kick a*s i7 machine, and call it even for about 10-12k less?
If I had 5k even, OMG the sick PC i would build that would do everything and more that this can.
Yea way overpriced except for those on MTV Cribs
Is it just me, or does this article read like it's the official press release?
this is what we call high quality pr0n now?
this is what we call high quality pr0n now?
All I know is, I got a memo.
Hey I've developed a high quality porn displaying machine. For around $14,000 I can get you a "porn center" that will allow you to receive nearly unlimited amounts of high quality porn for free and store it in a space the size of a small dog. It's called a computer. PM me for details and special offers.
I see what you did there....
$14000 and I only get 12 TB of storage. I can do better with $1400.
pppffff. With $14K I would expect a media server to have a robotic arm to pick up disks from my shelve and deposit it into a drive and rip, tag, sort, save everything in order while I play with my prick all day.
Must be part of the conspicuous consumption sickness.
anyone that thinks they could make any type of comparable machine for under 5k clearly lacks a refined appreciation for quality audio, clean lines and silence.
Plus, I'm guessing this thing doesn't run on windows so you'd probably have to come up with your own gui too.
It does have severe limitations as well though - its all very well having a fantastic gui for the media library - just a shame there's no way to actually add films to the library using the device since it wont record encrypted material, which basically means you have to extract and decrypt any dvd / bluray on a pc, burn it onto a disc then rip it using the MS1 to its library - sounds like a total ball-ache to me.
sever.....sever...sever....
proofread... proofread... proofread...
$14000 and I only get 12 TB of storage. I can do better with $1400.
Well, it depends on the storage solution. Most of the people here are going to think 'hmm, i could do better with $50 SATA drives' but don't understand the price/performance difference with 15k rpm SAS drives + 512MB-1GB of write back cache, etc unless they work around such devices.
It makes me want to gouge my eyes out when I go to the storage section of the forums and see a post about 4 HDDs in RAID0, ten responses with nobody even mentioning RAID1+0 having similar performance and offering redundancy.
This is a joke. My media server cost me £1500 to put together and runs over 15TB at the moment with the expansion capability to 48Tb.
check this out... its better
http://www.kaleidescape.com/