Serve Your Media Right
You love your media, so treat it well. The Media Hub makes it easy to organize, access, and share your digital video, photos, and music -- around your home and around the world. With massive capacity, intelligent aggregation, and media optimized file-serving capabilities, it’s an ideal way to manage your material, enjoy your entertainment and share your memories. Show your media how much you love it – give it a Hub.
Media Central
Conveniently access and stream your media from a versatile, high-performance storage hub. Multi-stream capability lets you enjoy different media simultaneously: watch a movie while your kids listen to music and your spouse browses photos. Intelligent aggregation automatically finds, copies and organizes media from all the UPnP devices on your network – even collecting songs from the same CD stored in different places into one virtual album. Built-in Media Reader lets you directly import photos from compact Flash devices, SD cards and memory stick without the need of a computer.
Media World
Enjoy your media anywhere in the world (fees may apply). Easily configure the Hub to share or accept video, photos, and music via the Internet. Elegant web-based interface makes browsing and organizing your media a snap, from home or away. Watch a movie on the go; DJ at a friend’s party with your music from home. Upload vacation snapshots for your friends to view, while still on vacation -- free your media to be where you want it.
Media Massive
Within its stylish, compact design, the hub’s high capacity can store hundreds of hours of video, hundreds of thousands of photos and songs. With a 500 Gigabyte hard drive and additional drive bay, this Media Hub (model# NMH405) is set to grow along with your media collection. Full-color LCD makes it easy to manage your storage space.
Media Safe
Included Automated Backup Software helps preserve your music, movies and memories with manual and continuous backup of all of your computers’ media material.
More Information
- Windows XP or Vista with 32-Bit Browser
- CD-ROM Drive
- Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 2 or Higher
- Adobe Flash Player 9 or Higher
- PC Required to Set Up
- 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet connection (network adapter, router, gateway, switch or hub port)
- Broadband Internet Connection
Minimum Requirements
Includes Remote Access service for one year from date of purchase. Fees may apply thereafter and are subject to change.
NMH405 Detailed Features
Media Hub
Are you tired of searching across multiple PCs in multiple directories to find the picture, song, or video you want? Not just an external hard drive, the Linksys by Cisco Media Hub is an intelligent peripheral that gathers and organizes your photos, music, and videos so you can store, access, protect, and share them – from anywhere. The difference between the Media Hub and a simple USB hard drive is the difference between a shoebox jammed with snapshots and a self-filling, self-organizing, always-ready-to-enjoy photo album. And what the Media Hub does for pictures, it does for music and videos, too.
Don't Just Store, Enjoy Your Media
Simply connect the Media Hub to your home network via Gigabit or 10/100 Ethernet. Run the Media Importer software on your Windows or Mac computers, choosing the folders you want to copy to the Media Hub. All your media files -- photos, music, and video -- are automatically copied, indexed, and presented in an attractive "catalog view" in the Media Browser, so you can browse your digital memories organized by media type, and sorted by name, date, folder, etc. Afterward, the Importer keeps the Media Hub's collection up-to-date by continuously monitoring the designated media directories on your PCs and copying any new files that appear to the Hub.
The Media Hub can also "crawl" the UPnP AV servers it finds on your network, to index and aggregate the digital media in your home, without physically copying it to the Hub. These files are indexed, sorted, and shown in the Media Browser, just like the files that are on the Media Hub itself.
At home...
Once the Media Hub has collected and/or indexed your media, you can enjoy it from any PC, TV (with appropriate UPnP AV digital media adapter), or media player (Xbox360, PlayStation 3, digital picture frame, etc.) in the house. The Media Hub is a DLNA 1.5 certified stand-alone media server -- you don't need to leave a PC on 24/7 to be able to access your media anytime. The server supports almost any file format imaginable:
- Audio: M4A, M4B, MP4, 3GP, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC, MP2, AC3, MPA, MP1, AIF, ASF
- Photo: PNG, TIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF
- Video: MP1, MPG, SPTS, MP4, AVI, VOB, DivX, 3GP, VDR, MPE, DVR-MS, Xvid, M1V, M4V, MOV, MPV
- Playlists: M3U, M3U8, PLS, WPL
The Media Hub even shows up as a shared device when you run iTunes, anywhere in the house -- just click and play.
... and away
But you don't have to be at home to enjoy your digital media. With the Cisco Remote Access Service1, there are no confusing network addresses to remember. Log onto your Media Hub with a web browser using your chosen personalized "name" (i.e., "Smith-Media"), and you can enjoy your media through the Internet. You get the same easy-to-use attractive catalog view, and can listen to your music, view your pictures, or watch your videos, from anywhere.
Protect Your Digital Memories
Store
The NMH405 Media Hub comes with one 500 gigabyte green-power hard drive pre-installed -- enough space for up to 100,000 songs, 150,000 photos, or 200 DVD-quality movies2. And, you can drop a readily-available SATA hard drive into the second drive bay for even more storage as your collection grows.
You can use the second drive as additional space for your files (JBOD mode), or set it up to "mirror" the main drive. In this RAID1 mode, any files that are saved to the main drive are automatically also copied to the second drive, so you have a continuously-updated backup copy of all your files if anything goes wrong with either drive.
Collect
The Media Hub has two USB ports so you can copy files to and from your flash drives or external USB hard drives. There are also flash card slots to accept all common digital camera memory cards (CF, MD, MS, SD, SDHC, XD, and MMC are supported). The Media Hub imports pictures from flash cards into dated folders, quickly and easily. Just slip the card in the appropriate slot, push a few buttons on the Media Hub, and your pictures are imported, cataloged, and ready to view -- with no need to start up your computer. The Media Hub makes importing pictures so easy, you're bound to take more pictures, and get more great shots!
Backup
The Media Hub comes with backup capabilities to give you peace of mind by helping to protect your digital media and other files. Start a backup anytime from the front panel of the Media Hub, or schedule backups at regular intervals, so you don't have to remember.
The Media Hub helps keep your treasured memories safe, too, with automatic or on-demand backups of media and other files stored on any of the PCs in your home. Schedule regular backups or start a backup any time from the front panel of the Media Hub. You can backup your PC files to the Media Hub, or backup the Media Hub files to one of your PCs.
Control
The Media Hub's full-color LCD screen and navigation buttons let you initiate backups, import flash cards, see alerts, check on hard drive usage, view status, and more, all without the need to start up your computer.
Intelligent Storage
Let the Cisco Media Hub store, access, protect, and share your digital media!
1.Includes Remote Access service for one year from date of purchase. Fees may apply thereafter and are subject to change. Go to www.linksysbycisco.com for further information.
2.Assumes average photo size of 3 MB; song (MP3) size of 5 MB; and video size of 2.2 GB/hr.
Tech Specs
- Model: NMH405 - Media Hub with LCD
- Standards: IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab
- Ports: One Power, One Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000), Two USB 2.0
- Buttons: Five Navigation, One Reset, One Power
- LCD: One 1.8", 176x220, 64K Colors
- LED: One Power
- Drive Bays: 2 SATA
- Certiication: DLNA 1.5
- Cabling Type: UTP CAT5E or Better
- UPnP able/cert: Discovery, AV
- Security Features: Password for System Administration and Remote Access
Key Features
- Provides two bays with SATA interface, easy installation and removal:
First bay pre-installed with one green‑power, hard disk drive (NMH405: 500 GB, NMH410: 1 TB)
Second bay available for end-user upgrade - Provides two USB ports and one media reader that supports CF/MD/MS/SD/XD/MMC memory cards
- Provides a LCD display for system status, coniguration and media card backup or import progress
- Supports 10/100/1000 Ethernet connection
- Supports RAID1/JBOD configurations
- Share storage with PCs connected to the network through SMB/CIF protocol
- Provides PC backup with NTI Shadow software:
Automatic scheduled backup available
On-demand backup via GUI or LCD
Continuous backup option available - Provides user easy way to import media content with Linksys Media Importer
- DLNA 1.5 certified. Also streams content to Xbox 360 or UPnP DMA devices
- Supports three simultaneous HD streams
- Automated “crawl” for UPnP servers to index and aggregate all digital media in the home
- Supports iTunes server
- Provides user-friendly, browser-based Media Browser to view JPEG pictures, play MP3 and WMA music, and manage system configuration
- Media server support for most content formats:
Audio: M4A, M4B, MP4, 3GP, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC, MP2, AC3, MPA, MP1, AIF, ASF
Photo: PNG, TIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF
Video: MP1, MPG, SPTS, MP4, AVI, VOB, DivX, 3GP, VDR, MPE, DVR-MS, Xvid, M1V, M4V, MOV, MPV
Playlists: M3U, M3U8, PLS, WPL - Provides remote access using DDNS in combination with Linksys relaying service to cover up to 100% of all Internet users
Environmental Details
- Dimensions 7.80" x 4.37" x 6.61" (198 x 111 x 168 mm)
- Weight NMH405 - 4.61 lb (2.09 kg)
- NMH410 - 4.65 lb (2.11 kg)
- Power External 12V/5A
- Certification FCC, CE, UL
- Operating Temp. 32 to 95°F (0 to 35°C)
- Storage Temp. -13 to 158°F (-25 to 70°C)
- Operating Humidity 10 to 90% Noncondensing
- Storage Humidity 5 to 95% Noncondensing
Package Contents
- Setup CD-ROM
- Printed Quick Installation Guide
- Ethernet Network Cable
- Power Adapter with Power Cord
Minimum Requirements
- Windows XP or Vista with 32-Bit Browser
- CD-ROM Drive
- Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 2 or Higher
- Adobe Flash Player 9 or Higher
- PC Required to Set Up
- 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet connection (network adapter, router, gateway, switch or hub port)
- Broadband Internet Connection
Includes Remote Access service for one year from date of purchase. Fees may apply thereafter and are subject to change.
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