MPC Club Reviews 2010
LOOQS
M
EE
B
OX
Having the proper “LOOQS” in life
has its benefits, but when it
comes down to products, these
same looks are only valuable for
the first impression that may
drive your purchase decision. The
good stuff comes after testing the unit and its abilities where you fall in love
with the product or not. For me, the introduction to LOOQS was love at first
sight, but only for the design quality and simple finesse of the hardware and
I have a reason that goes with that… I’ve been longing for a NAS storage that
is silent and fits in with my equipment and at least by design, both
requirements are met 100%.
Now, only few hours later, we hooked it up and start playing around to check
if “the love” lasts on or was just fling… Let’s start off with the design which
you will agree is simple, but oh so effective. Everything is almost done
absolutely right and I can only hope the impression will last until the bitter
end…
The design is standard with slightly more width than a regular DVD player,
we measure 43,8cm width design, 4.5cm height and only 21cm deep. The
front of the unit is sober with led integration for HDD, LAN and USB status.
The only button you can find in front is the power button. The dark design
with grey tones works excellent for the
unit and maybe the best of it
all, it isn’t plastic.
The rear of the unit is fitted with the absolute basics only, a GBIT network
connection and 2 USB ports. A minor remark here would be an eSATA would
have fitted in well. A reset switch is available and off course power socket.
The box comes with the unit itself, a CD-Rom with tools for installation, a
quick start guide, and power and network cable. Some screws are contained
in the box for firmly fitting the hard drives into their cabinets of which 2 can
be used inside the MeeBox.
I
NITIAL
S
ETUP AND
F
EATURES
Our system, don’t read anything, just hook it up and start playing is a great
system to measure user convenience and the way the MeeBox is presented
and designed, it “LOOQS” as if it has been crafted with the regular John Doe
at home in mind. Let’s see if we get thru it all without wasting time reading
(who read manuals anyway
)
We connect the MeeBox to our GBIT lan and fire it up. Insert the CD-Rom. If
we were to start nitpicking on the littlest details, we may state the CD-Rom
is not an auto start CD-Rom launching the application, so we need to start
the setup manually…
And here we go, after a minute booting the MeeBox becomes available on
our network and the setup wizard detects the system. We press “Setup” and
away we go…
