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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

By scottwolf February 26, 2009, 1:34 PM PST

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Mugshot #1

Mugshot #1

The HP Media Vault brings network attached storage to the masses in an affordable and easily configurable way.n

nWith hard drive prices falling and digital media use soaring, it was only a matter of time until the demand for user friendly NAS boxes were high enough to warrant a product such as the HP Media Vault.n

nHaving had a RAID-5 home server for over 8 years for storage of photos, mp3s, videos, college documents etc, I was eager to crack this product open and see what made it tick. n

nFront shot, door closed. The HP Media Vault is, by NAS comparison, tiny. It’s only 5.5″ high.

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Box 3

Box 3

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Box 4

Box 4

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Mugshot #2

Mugshot #2

Rear Shot. (wolf whistle) From here you can see the rj45 port, power adapter port, and the Kensington security slot.

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Mugshot #3 w/refreshment (for scale)

Mugshot #3 w/refreshment (for scale)

Sideshot – left.

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Mugshot #4 w/refreshment (for scale)

Mugshot #4 w/refreshment (for scale)

Sideshot – right.

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Mugshot #5 w/refreshment (for scale)

Mugshot #5 w/refreshment (for scale)

Top Shot.

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Tis but a scratch

Tis but a scratch

Removing the drive was easy enough. Lift on the removable drive handle and pull forward.

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Don't label me

Don't label me

The drives in the unit are Seagate 750gb ST3750640AS SATAs. 7200RPM 16MB cache SATA 300.n

nI tried to verify the warranty status of the drive but it returned a status of “component drive” (The product you identified was sold as a system component. Please contact your place of purchase for service.)

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

And so it begins..

And so it begins..

Four screws and the front plate was easily removed. This gave access to the internal hard drive and the motherboard.

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Door off the hinges

Door off the hinges

A single screw at the bottom of the door held it in place. The top of the door was held in place by a molded plastic post on the door.

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Different kind of drive flashing

Different kind of drive flashing

Here’s the front-less view of unit.

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Front-less #2

Front-less #2

Different angle of front-less view.

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Left side removal

Left side removal

To remove the side facade, you just need to depress the tab inside the front middle. In this picture, you can see where the rectangular hole is on the inside side wall, near the front. That’s where there tab held the side in place.

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Right side removal 1

Right side removal 1

Same as before, depress tab and side removed easily.

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Right side removal 2

Right side removal 2

Same as before, depress tab and side removed easily.

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Internal Drive removal

Internal Drive removal

The drive simply pulls out.

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Removing the rear 4 screws easily detached the rear of the case. From here I unplugged the fan and un-routed the wires.

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Rear view

Rear view

From the rear you can see two SATA power cables, two data power cables and a motherboard power cable that are screaming to be removed.

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It's not enough to unplug

It's not enough to unplug

I probably could have just unplugged the SATA connectors, but they were easily removed by removing two screws each. From there they easily lifted out.

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Time to remove the brains

Time to remove the brains

Sorry for the depth of field issue here. My fancy camera can sometimes be smarter than me. n

nFrom here you can (sort of) see that I removed the two screws holding in the motherboard. Now that there were no SATA cables holding the motherboard in place, the motherboard easily slid out.

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Mobo tray slides out

Mobo tray slides out

Motherboard slid right out.

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Full shot of motherboard

Full shot of motherboard

Not much to say here, full shot of motherboard. Closeup shots will follow.

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Closeup mobo 1

Closeup mobo 1

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Closeup mobo 2

Closeup mobo 2

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Closeup mobo 3

Closeup mobo 3

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Closeup mobo 4

Closeup mobo 4

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Closeup mobo 5

Closeup mobo 5

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Cracking Open the MV5100 HP Media Vault

Closeup mobo 7

Closeup mobo 7

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All tore down and no where to go

All tore down and no where to go

Here are all the parts that tore down. I could have torn the hard drives down some more, but I think TechRepublic wanted back a working unit.

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