ForumINOi MH720 detail information
| Posted by | Doug Schwantes |
| Posted on | 25/10/07 14:16 |
| Number of views | 8236 |
| Manufacturer | INOi |
| Product | INOi MH720 |
| Description | INOi Media HardDrive MH720 |
Page 3 Software and drive installation
Software and drive installation:
According to the instruction manual we first need to insert the Utility CD and install the Utility software (for Windows98 SE you also need to install the USB driver), as you can see if you don’t already have a PDF format reader you can install Acrobat Reader to access the User manual and Quick User Guide located on the utility CD.
Installation
Private folder software location
Setup complete
The software installation is very straight forward and only takes a few seconds and it completed successfully.
Let us now look at how we will hook up the drive to our test system.
As you can see from our screen shot the drive hooks up simply as any other USB or eSATA device would including the power supply, our test unit only supports a USB connection
The INOi Media HardDrive was shipped formatted to FAT32, we are going to format the drive as NTFS but if you choose to leave the file system as FAT32 you are ready to start using the drive right away.
We can see from our screen shot in Device Manager that the drive is a Samsung Spinpoint T166 SATA.
Now we have our drive hooked up and turned on, we are ready to get started but first we will make a few folders on our INOi Media HardDrive to help us keep the media that we will copy better organized.
During installation with the Utility CD we have a program called “Private Folder Setup”, with this easy to use utility we can password protect up to 16 Private Folders by first clicking on the folder we want to protect then entering a 4 number numerical code and clicking on “Mark as Private”. To then access this folder we simple enter the code.
Once the files are copied we need to shutdown the INOi Media HardDrive but first we need to use the Safely Remove Hardware Icon, you will find this Icon in your system tray:
Simple select your drive and click “Stop”, this will make sure all files are written to your drive before removing the USB cable. Now we can power down the INOi Media HardDrive by pressing and holding the power button on the back of the unit until the drive shuts down. Now it is safe to unhook the drive.
Now we will take a look at the options we have when hooking up our unit to our AV equipment.
Here we see the available options we have for hooking up our drive to out television. For our testing we will be using the Composite Video Output
Now that we have the unit hooked to our television using the Composite Video Output and the power plugged in we can turn on the unit. We may want to change some device settings, so let’s take a look at navigating through the menus and see what options we have available.
We can see it’s easy to change the OSD and Audio
Now you will notice the other advanced audio settings
Here we have the advanced Video settings
Our final menu with screen saver, angle mark and closed caption options
On the next page we will take a look at copying and playing media files…
What’s inside the box?
Complaints:
The UI is very simple which is nice for handling a few things but it's tedious with hundreds and thousands. I had to arrange things in an expanded multlevel directory structure to compensate. I'm sure there's a linux kernal in there so they should improve it or let the hackers have at it!
It will hang on a file that it can't decode. So far everytime I've found that the original file was corrupted.
It also seems to run a bit hot too.
Conclusion: It's great. I've chucked the Media PC from the living room and I'm going to get another one of these for the bedroom!
Neil
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