There are media servers and then THERE ARE MEDIA SERVERS. Like the new Vidabox Rack24, for example. 22TB (!) of storage for all your home media needs at a yet as undisclosed price. This, as far as we can tell, does one up on the 15TB Intest NAS device.

What would you do with 22TB of media storage? I have no idea myself. The Vidabox Rack24 though can pack it in, including over 3,350 DVDs or a reported 880 Blu-ray movies. 24 hard drive bays provide the space necessary for this massive amount of storage and the Rack24 can come preloaded and pre-configured with Microsoft’s Vista Home Premium software when configured as a hybrid server/AV stream provider.

MediaGate said today it is releasing for public consumption its latest wireless media server for home entertainment and networking. It is called the MG-450HD and pricing is set at around $230.

The MediaGate MG-450HD is designed to let you bring video, music and photos directly to your home entertainment system from a network PC in, here’s that buzzword, HD. It can operate across 802.11g wireless networks and supports attached USB devices like digital cameras.

A company by the name of Nuvo Technologies is offering up a new music server for those who want to store large amounts of their digital music for easy access via a home entertainment system. This server is known as the NV-M3-500 and you’ll find it costing you around $3,000.

The Nuvo NV-M3-500 offers up 500GB of music storage in its hard drive. Nuvo says this can turn out to be around 830 CDs in uncompressed WAV, though it also supports WMA and MP3. It is Windows DRM compliant, has three source outputs and uses Windows Media Player for file management.

Mvix has begun making available a new wireless media center HD enclosure through Web sites like ThinkGeek. This particular model is known as the MX-780HD and pricing is at around $300.

The Mvix MX-780HD, like we said, has not hard drive enclosed, though it should support any size 3.5-inch IDE or SATA drive you can get your grubby hands on. With this media player you can connect to your home network via Ethernet or wireless or access internal or external hard drive files for the purpose of bridging them into your home entertainment setup. You also get HD quality video output from the HDMI and component connections.

Alienware is making available to consumers through professional installers a new home media server. It is called simply enough the Alienware High Definition Media Server - no specific pricing was mentioned.

The Alienware High Definition Media Server targets high end consumers seeking a high quality media server for their home entertainment needs. It offers up 4TB(!) of storage space to provide you with “alifetime’s worth of digital movies, music, photos and more.” It can be used to delivery this content wirelessly or via a home network to any computer, while also being able to connect to a home entertainment system through a variety of audio and video outputs.