Home Network Automatic Backup with the Media Hub
Backing up your music may seem like an inconvenience at the time, but it’s more than worth it and the Media Hub on your home network will automatically do it for you.
Your home network should be your sanctuary (digitally speaking that is). Just like your actual home, your home network should eliminate stress and confusion by making it as easy as possible to access your photos, videos, music and more.
There’s nothing more frustrating than losing media you have bought or even worse, buying something twice because you could not find it on an old hard drive you had temporarily disconnected from a computer.
Think about it. If you have a library of 10,000 pieces of music, replacing it is going to cost you around $10,000 at 99 cents a track. And if you have been downloading free tracks from Amazon or the iTunes stores or albums at promo prices that Amazon offers every day (typically at $1.99), those opportunities don’t repeat. It’s a lot of change to replace lost music and you can dodge this problem by having an easy to navigate home network.
If you already owned the music on CD, ripping songs takes time. It might take you weeks to reconvert your music. Even worse, some people rip their music and toss their CDs because they take up so much room. So, making sure your fragile music collection is backed up is worth spending a little time and attention on.
If you have kept the originals of your videos, it’s the same story. They are bulky to store, time consuming to copy and it’s really annoying if you lose downloaded videos. Making sure they are backed up is no small problem when high quality video runs 3-4 gig for standard TV and 8 gig for HD movies.
What happens if you lose all your digital photos or family videos? The digital catalog of your family growing up, your vacations, your artwork and creations, the pictures of your past. It would be very frustrating.
So how can a Media Hub help? The answer, we think, is simple: “You have big dollars invested in your media but you can’t find a song quickly or find the photo of your niece at the park or even if you downloaded a particular video. A Media Hub will help simplify finding your media quickly.” It will also enable you to automatically backup, access and share your treasured digital music, photos, videos and other files throughout the home or remotely via any Internet browser. More than just a hard drive, a Media Hub like the Linksys by Cisco Media Hub (NMH405) is an intelligent storage device that takes all the media from all the PCs and other storage devices throughout the home and pulls it all together in one location and presents it in an easy to understand application so you can access and use your media content easily.
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Posted by Johanna Fry at 03:30PM PST
Johanna Fry
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