MPC Club Reviews 2010
R
EPORTS
Available reports are limited to disk space consumption and consumption
per user. When a quota has been implemented, we can determine if any
users are likely to reach their quota and decide upon expanding.
M
ISCELLANEOUS
When using advanced management, a NTP server can be used to make sure
the time on the MeeBox is correct. There are power recovery settings which
allow us to set the system to boot up when a power is restored after failure
and the usual restart and shutdown buttons are integrated here. We rather
have these last two available in the header without the need to navigate
down to advanced settings. Another feature that may come in handy is the
ability to save the settings we made to a file and reload it whenever
necessary and the factory defaults option that allows us to start over.
Disk Utility is limited to formatting the internal hard drives. While the
internal hard drives are limited to EXT2/Ext3 (no ext4?), the external drives
can be either Linux formatted with ext2/ext3, formatted in XFS or windows
formatted, both NTFS and FAT32 are supported.
Last option we find is the ability to upgrade the firmware and apparently
there’s a disk image too… We believe the disk image contains the features
installed for this unit so it is not stored on internal memory or flash, but a
part of the hard drives is reserved for this.
A
PPS AND
S
ERVICES
Another section in the advanced menu is the application section and inside
the application list, all we find is Apache Web Server and the torrent client.
Underneath services we have the ability to enable or disable the Web Server,
MySQL, SSH/SFTP, web proxy cache and the UPnP Media Server.
Separated from these services are the telnet server, print server and
Bonjour/iTunes Server. Each of these can be enabled or disabled in their
respective sections.
That kind of completes the options available to us and although there’s quite
few options available, we did miss some options along the exploration of the
MeeBox, some of whom are popular while others simply make life a lot
easier for any NAS server.
