The ultimate home media server....drool

robbie1876

I've been slobbering all over the specs of this monster machine all day, particularly because I'm a dealer for it and one love to install one, but I can't see there being much requirement for it in homes in this country yet.


The AMX MAX MMS900M Media Server - Not the prettiest thing on earth, but check out what it does:

It's a DVD/CD server with 7.2 terrabytes of storage (yes, you read that right!) - it can eat up to 900 DVDs or 25,000 CDs, all uncompressed!!! It stores DVDs in their native uncompressed Component format complete with full uncompressed surround sound and all multimedia features. The server works off a bank of 250GB SATA drives in a RAID5 format, so everything is automatically backed up.

It requires a Gigabit network (1000Mbps) to talk to clients in each room of your home. It's capable of streaming into 24 rooms simultaneously. That means 24 people can be watching different uncompressed DVD movies from the one server at the same time. All controlled by lovely touch panels which can also receive the streaming DVD content for preview purposes. It automatically whips cover art off the net which can be browsed from any of the control touch panels.

An animal of a machine, I want one, but I don't know why, or what use I would have for it. Here's the killer - it cost €60k. And that's only for the server, not the touch panels or the network. Ah well, we can dream...

Robbie

IrishMike

oh sweet mother of god if i win the lotto thats goin on my list 4 sure !

andersde10

that's about 2 million MP3's

robbie1876

andersde10 wrote:

that's about 2 million MP3's

I read somewhere that if you count all of the music that has ever been recorded anywhere in the world, there are about 10 million tracks. It's surely only a matter of years before a device like the above server becomes available pre-loaded with every piece of music ever recorded. The storage capacity is there now (5 of these servers would cover it), but there could be slight legal issues involved

andersde10

hah, how much would that cost then - 10 million songs and a device to store it.
good luck finding anything

robbie1876

Well that's the point, is that storage devices are becoming cheaper all the time. Probably by the end of 2005 most high end PCs will be shipping with a terrabyte of hard disk storage. You would need about 35 terrabytes for 10 million tracks, which would probably be affordable in maybe 4 or 5 years.

As to the price of the tracks, well that's a different thing! It potentially could be a pirates dream though. Imagine you could buy a hard drive with maybe 2 million songs on it - In a few years this won't be that expensive to duplicate, so it's possible. Will be interesting when it all happens. Heh, the music industry think they're in trouble now, eh?

jozi

Thats a nice piece of kit, would work nice in a hotel or something i would think

jozi

Pataman

Wow Where would I get its smaller and much cheaper version for a house. I want to install speakers all around the house controlled centrally. Any Ideas?