http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/ Engadget Comments for HP debuts Mac-compatible MediaSmart ex485 / ex487 home servers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
I went and built a simple "home media server" which runs Windows Server 2008 (I know, I know) and Debian in a VM. Simple, cheap machine with a Celeron 230, barebones Asus and a couple 500 GB HDs and a 750 GB HD I scrounged from a bunch of computers I've had laying around. Now I have 2 TB in RAID5, and the whole computer (minus the HDs) cost around ~$250.]]>Dec 29th 2008 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
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I'm sure it's a newer revision of the Celeron, but if you still want to go that way, whatever CPU you're using is a 30 year old processor, x86 ain't getting any younger...]]>Dec 29th 2008 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
Dual nVIDIA GTX 280 1024 MB GDDR3 on each card

H2C Liquid Cooling, Dual dvd/rw drives, 1 Terabyte SATA 2.0 HDD

Dell 30 inch Widescreen Ultrasharp Max Resolution 2560X1600

Win Vista 64 bit Home Premium

Win Vista 32 bit Home Premium

4 Years of Extended warranty and 4 years of Accidental damage care service]]>Dec 29th 2008 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
The processor uses the 30 year old x86(-64) archetecture! Just like the Celeron!

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Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_microarchitecture it seems the Celeron here is the E1400 "Allendale", with 512 KiB L2 cache. And according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#Dual-Core_Desktop_Processors the E1400 was released on April 20, 2008. Definitely not 10 years old =D]]>Dec 29th 2008 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86

Yep, that basic architecture is 30 years old.]]>Dec 29th 2008 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
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lol

No video stream support = nobody but suckers will buy it.]]>Dec 29th 2008 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2008/12/28/review-hp-mediasmart-server-ex48/
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@micas_pi - what do you need firewire for?

For those wondering about the Celeron, it's plenty fast for what you need in a home server - video streaming is probably the most demanding process, and works really well on the 487.

Cheers
Terry]]>Dec 29th 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
As for those complaining about the celeron processor, the previous version of the HP Media Server uses a lowly Sempron processor with only 512MB RAM, and those are within the recommended requirements for Windows Home Server. It runs fine. The 2GB RAM is definitely welcomed though.

Now, can engadget do a head to head between this and a drobo with the network share add-on? :)]]>Dec 29th 2008 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
Perhaps HP should concentrate on the hardware and leave all their crapware on a separate CD leaving it up to the user to decide if they want it.]]>Dec 29th 2008 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
Also, I *like* the deep blue LEDs - matches the rest of my (non-HP) gear.

And forgot to say in my previous rant...the one thing I *don't* want my home server to do is creepily scan all the PCs on the network and steal/copy/catalogue/covet all the jpg and mp3 files it can find!]]>Dec 29th 2008 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/
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You know this thing isn't a computer, right? It's a backup server.]]>Dec 29th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Dec 29th 2008 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-debuts-mac-compatible-mediasmart-ex485-ex487-home-servers/Feb 13th 2009 2:14AM