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Home servers are a growing segment of the consumer electronics market - although lagging behind the rate at which home digital assets are growing. Market research firm, In-Stat, recently released a report predicting a 62% growth rate for home network media servers from 2006 to 2011. In reality, it is something that needs to happen if families are to secure their rapidly growing digital assets including music, images and videos.

The core capabilities of the 500GB LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition Server are;

• Central storage for sharing, synchronizing and showing your digital media assets with friends and family
• Accessibility home files from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection
• Playback videos, music and photos on your television (UPnP capable)

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Now that Blu-ray has won the high definition DVD format battle, consumers will feel more confident about opting to purchase a media server to manage the ballooning storage requirements of their digital assets. A premium solution available is Sony’s HES-V1000 home entertainment media server and 200 disc BD/DVD/CD changer.

The HES-V1000 is a small, black tower (31 5/8 inches or 803 mm) stacked with a 500GB hard drive and room for 200 discs from your collection (actually you would have a very impressive collection just to fill it). The HDD can store up to 137 hours of video, 40,000 music files or 20,000 digital images. To access your media files Sony have included their Emmy award winning Xcross Media Bar (XMB) user interface as well as All-Media Guide (AMG) metadata technology.
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Alienware’s High Definition (1080p eg. Blu-ray Disc) Media Server packs a large 4TB (4,000 Gb) of memory for central storage for all types of digital content (eg. movies, music and images) for wireless streaming and sharing with home entertainment systems and other compatible media devices.

Storage is provided by four hard drives which are hot swappable (front panel access) and in a standard RAID 5 configuration. Upgrading or swapping hard disc drives is a simple matter of pulling one drive out and pushing another in. The Alienware HD server handles all the configuration work automatically.
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Popcorn Hour’s A-100 media server is a budget conscious solution for gathering and collating all your digital images, audio and video from your consumer electronics for playback on a high definition TV (HDTV) or home theater. Popcorn Hour is product brand for Syabas Technology.

Because of it’s wide range of compatible digital media formats it will stream or playback content from a wide variety of sources including PCs, NAS, digital cameras, USB mass storage devices (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive) , internal HDD (not included) and directly from the Internet via a Media Service Portal. As well a providing convenience, collating your digital media in one place provides a backup of valuable and, in some cases, sentimental items.
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