I owned an Xtremer for 2 years and was always after a Mede8er.
Looked so well designed, great casing, so so remote, wifi enabled etc etc so I finally decided to get a 500X2
Out the box it was HUGE. Didn't expect it to be that large.
First thing I did was to open up the case to put in a new 2TB drive and oh dear oh dear...what a disappointment. It was a bare circuitboard, with roughly scattered SAT and power cables and the rest was EMPTY SPACE? Not a good start at all. It was like they built a case, threw in a board, cabled it untidily and the put it on retail store shelves.
Swtiched on, nice interface, easy wi-fi setup, cps themes, so-so speeds to load up big Blu Ray rips but overall a "semi slick" interface. Did the obligatory firmware update etc etc so I couldn't understand the following:
Next step: Decided to transfer all movies from a 2TB in a dock to the internal 2TB of the Mede8er via USB.
OH MY GOD !!!
It took 6 days to copy 2TB!!!!
The Xtremer did it in 8 hours.
I am absolutely horrified.
Is there any reason for this USB 1.0 speed?
Also expected the case buttons to glow when pressed i.e. the play button ec but all I got was a very dull blue power LED.
The remote is HUUUGE and pretty 90's (perhaps they were going retro), but probably just designed an ugly remote.
I know there are fewer versions of the Mede8er but I am doing a direct comparison with my Xtremer and honestly I cannot say I am impressed at all.
I know most of the Mede8er fanatics like the networking capabilities but I'm a Mac kinda guy so this doesn't really matter to me.
A little disappointed in this unit to say the least.
Anyone else share these views?