HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live, Windows Home Server, 500 GB Hard Drive)
Maximize the power and potential of your home network with the HP EX470 MediaSmart Server, which enables you to conveniently centralize your files and access them from multiple PCs in your home. Based on AMD Live processing power, the MediaSmart Server enables you to back up your home's PCs as well as share and enjoy digital music, home videos and photos from any computer or entertainment system on a home network. The server also has the expandability to grow with your family's changing needs. 
The stylish HP MediaSmart Server easily fits into your living room or office decor. |
Its small size will fit on top of even the most crowded desk, and it offers wireless access when connected to a Wi-Fi router (via the Gigabit Ethernet port). |
This sleek, streamlined micro-tower design is perfect for use in the home office or the living room, and its perforated steel exterior panels provide cool, quiet operation. The EX470 MediaSmart Server features a 500 GB internal hard drive (SATA, 7200 RPM), 512 MB of installed DDR2 RAM, four hard drive bays for additional expansion using off-the-shelf SATA I or II hard drives, a Gigabit Ethernet port for ultra-fast networking (and connection to a wireless router), four USB 2.0 ports (1 on the front, 3 on the back) for connecting to additional hard drives, and an and an eSATA port for high-speed data transfer to external storage devices--up to 6 times faster than existing solutions. It's quick and easy to set up your HP MediaSmart Server and create up to 10 user accounts using the Microsoft Windows Home Server software. You can also open a predefined Guest account for additional file sharing capabilities. The HP MediaSmart Server also lets you set up your own secure personal web address to allow file access by remote users. Easily Enhance Your Network
Expand your storage possibilities with the MediaServer's four hard drive bays. |
Every PC on your network will have the Control Center software, giving users the ability to browse shared folders on the HP MediaSmart Server, add photos to the HP Photo Webshare and perform an immediate backup of their computer. Set the access privileges for each user at the shared-folder level to allow Read/Write, Read Only or No Access. You also control the remote access privilege for each user. Approved users will then be able to remotely access shared files and even applications on their home PC through a secure connection from any Internet-connected PC. 
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Share Your Media
Use included HP Photo Webshare software to easily and securely share photos stored on your HP MediaSmart Server with select friends and family. A quick link to Snapfish allows easy photo printing. Enjoy digital music, photos, video and files from any networked PC. Stream content directly to your home entertainment center using a digital media adapter (DMA). The DMA device accesses the media files and coordinates the streaming process between the HP MediaSmart Server and your entertainment device. Protect Your Data
Keep your PC files safe with automatic backup for multiple PCs. You can customize the frequency of backups and how many backups are stored. Files accidentally deleted can be easily found on the backup image and copied to your PC. In the event of hard drive failure, the included HP PC Restore disc is all you need to return your PC and all your data to their original condition. Other Features
- Centralize your iTunes music libraries and playlists on the server for playback to any PC or notebook running iTunes on your home network.
- Incremental backups: After initial backup, only changes are backed up.
- Efficient single copy backup: A single copy of each file is backed up, no matter how many computers that files resides on in your home network.
- Add an internal or external hard drive to the HP MediaSmart Server, indicate that you want to add the disk in the Windows Home Server Console, and the HP MediaSmart Server storage grows. No need to power down the unit or manage drive letters for multiple hard drives.
- Remote access compatibility: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Media Center Edition 2004 or higher, or Windows Vista Ultimate or higher
- File sharing compatibility: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Mac, OS X, Linux.
- Backup compatibility: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP
What's in the Box
HP MediaSmart Server, power cord, Ethernet cable, software installation disc, PC restore disc, server recovery disc, Quick Start and HP support guides. Important: The HP MediaSmart Server is not a stand-alone computer. You connect it to your networked computer system. No monitor is needed because its user interface is accessed from another computer.
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HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live, Windows Home Server, 500 GB Hard Drive) Reviews
Surprised a Windows product can be this good. Kudos to HP. Apple is no longer the only user-friendly product in town. Simple to set up and configure - rock solid. Adding drives, remote access - no problem. Beautiful product.
I'm sure this will not be a core HP product, but at least they released it. A+ for you HP, thanks for releasing a great product. Backup all your home PC's. For remote access, you do need to read the instructions. The main purpose(s) of this product are to:.
It is extremely fast to backup a PC, does not use a lot of resources, and remote access is a dream come true if you have multiple PC's in your home. It's extremely simple, if you read the destructions. Remotely access them via the web (You must run XP Pro or Vista Business on your PC's for this to work). It works perfectly as described. There are no drawbacks. Chances are, you will need to forward a port on your router.
Most computer manufacturers are scared to release anything that won't sell.
(this excludes the carboard box of Amazon).far too much carboard used in todays "sustainable development" culture. As well, a hefty printed manual that alot of people will hardly ever use, ideally this whould have been included on a CDrom as a PDF. Also of note: way too much packaging of the device, outlayer of carboard packaging with a inner box of carboard. first experience was misleading; inserted the CD, the autorun tried to run but the program was corrupt, instead manually ran the setup.exe and everything worked fine. How many '000s of units are you planning on selling. Wake up HP. Typical Microsoft experience, first, it downloads a whole load of patches and corrections, afterwards, the famous reboot, you are then presented with some setup options.
Nice interface for the user, was setup in a matter of minutes. Easy to configure, straight forward for any IT aware person. Quiet.and.discret.I think I'll like it. Shame there is no hardware RAID, it says you can mirror specific folders onto different disks, but I still have yet to discover how this works.
In both cases the EX470 worked flawlessly.
Even Microsoft's Restore couldn't fix what the EX470's PC Restorer was able to do.
I purchased the EX470 primarily as a server for music and video.
By the way, the music and video serving is meeting and exceeding all my expectations.
The laptop was completely restored and is working without any errors.
And, I wanted to restore a program on a desktop computer that had ceased functioning even after reloading it.
But, in the last two weeks I had the need to restore a laptop that would no longer boot up due to a damaged boot sector.
The desktop software was restored to its operating environment prior to the software failure.
However, I replaced the drive, plugged the laptop into the network and booted off the WHS recovery disk. This is the first time I've had a backup system that just worked. This morning I got up, rebooted my wife's computer and its back just like before. I've had HP home server for about 6 months. My wife had important work data on the computer so was very anxious about the probability of recovery. Yesterday, my daughter dropped my wife's laptop and the HD is now toast.
Having been through this before with other backup devices, I wasn't terribly optimistic. I couldn't ask for a better disaster recovery experience. All of the computers in my home automatically backup to the server every day. Right now everyone is happy. This server deserves more than 5 stars.
I then asked it to recovery my wife's computer from the last back (which was from the day before) and went to bed.
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