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Great.

Chris

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Stop being negative for the sake of being negative. The details on this are still not all that fleshed out.

Microsoft isn't claiming to have come up with an novel idea here (only Apple likes to claim they created things that have existed for years), Microsoft is only trying to take an existing idea and make it easier to setup and use.]]>Jan 7th 2007 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Jan 8th 2007 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Media Connect server certainly sucks so far.]]>Jan 8th 2007 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/
Sounds like from what he described the HP product will have hot swap drives and RAID as well..]]>Jan 7th 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Jan 8th 2007 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Jan 8th 2007 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/]]>Jan 8th 2007 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Jan 7th 2007 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2007/ces/ds_de_mediasmartserver.pdf

which lists some of the specs of the box!]]>Jan 7th 2007 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Jan 8th 2007 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/
Now I want to see MS play nicely with folks: release a free SDK that allows anyone to create a WHS plugin. I would be willing to have this run in the background, but my wife and I are TiVo and Mac users - we're not going to move over to a Windows environment in the house just because I like the basic idea of this thing and it places my (currently multiple) components in a single box.

Oh, and xxdesmus: I don't think Apple has ever laid claim to creating anything, be it the personal computer or the GUI or the MP3 player. Now, popularizing things... that is something they have done going back to the Apple II. If you actually watch Jobs's keynotes he loves to talk about how X, Y, or Z has existed for years, but it's always been missing something... until now (and then he unveils something new from Apple). There ain't nothing wrong with that.

What I would like to see is Apple pull something like this out. I suspect that's partially where iTV is supposed to head, with the iTV as the client and something (but not the desktop Mac) serving in the background... but only time will tell.]]>Jan 8th 2007 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Apr 8th 2007 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/
Need to know a lot more about this before some of us replace our $89 Linksys file server.]]>Jan 8th 2007 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://on10.net/blogs/jesse/windows-home-server-will-live-in-your-closet-simplify-your-life/]]>Jan 8th 2007 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/
"You can access the WHS shared folders as you would any other Windows share, and that means your backup program--like Apple's Backup--can use a share as a save location as well. 'We're a great back-end store for Time Machine,' Headrick told me, alluding to the new backup feature Apple recently announced for Mac OS X Leopard."

- Paul Thurrott's overview
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp
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"Microsoft is announcing Windows Home Server at CES 2007 on January 7, 2007. The product will enter a private beta in late February or early March 2007 and will be released publicly in the second half of 2007. Microsoft will make WHS available in two ways: Bundled with new WHS hardware and software-only, the latter so that enthusiasts can install the system on the hardware of their choice."

and

"If you're building your own home server, Microsoft requires a 1 GHz processor or better, 512 MB of RAM or more, and as many disks as you think you need. The company will support multiple home servers on the same network, but it's still murky how that will work."

(Off Topic, this comment system is absolutely god-awful. At least give us a chance to change your password to something we might actually remember on different computers)]]>Jan 8th 2007 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Jan 8th 2007 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/Jan 9th 2007 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/
Disclaimer: I am not a RAID expert so correct me if I am wrong

With a RAID you cannot simply install a new drive you cannot simply add it to the existing RAID array. (like I said, correct me if I am wrong).

With the RAID-like "storage pool" they are using here, you just install a new drive and it will dynamically get added into the available amount of storage without any fuss.]]>Jan 9th 2007 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/microsoft-announces-hp-mediasmart-server-powered-by-windows-home/
My question is; Will this device be price competetive with somethnig like a READYNAS or a THECIS? Those have lower power (and therefore horsepower) footprints, but they are fairly reasonably proced.
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Does anyone have any better info that that? I really need this product.

I have a spare PC I want to use as the server, so don't want to buy the HP media smart server.

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