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If you’re wealthy and you fancy a distributed media system then there are quite a few brands to choose from. Some are pretty much pre-configured hard-drives-in-a-box, which you drop into your system and then try to integrate it with all the screens in your house (or more likely get your tech guy to do it), some come as a distribution unit and storage in one. What do you do, though, if you have more than one home? It’s actually a realistic concern for the sort of people who can afford this stuff; do you take all your media with you when you travel so as to keep each box updated, and if you’re doing that, is there really much point to having the hard-drive server anyway? Now, Xperinet, Inc. have come up with a convenient solution which creates your own instant network between their MIRV (Multiple Independent Replay Video) media boxes.
Called RAIDsync, it uses a dynamic internet link to synchronize any Xperinet box you own, no matter its location. That means if you buy a new DVD while staying in your apartment in New York, load it onto your media server and it’ll automatically be copied to the server’s counterpart at your Paris chateaux.
You don’t need a fixed IP, as it can resolve it on-the-fly, and each Xperinet box has RAID redundancy so there’s little chance of losing all your files. It also throttles its bandwidth use, so if you’re browsing the net you won’t notice slow-downs. Video, music, images and playlists are all synchronized, and Xperinet (or their dealer) will take your existing media library and load it all on for you when you initially buy the system. Models supporting HD video and with up to 4.5TB of storage are available.
RAIDsync will be preloaded on new Xperinet appliances from this month, and available as a software update for existing systems.
Xperinet, Inc. [via eHomeUpgrade]
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