http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/ Engadget Comments for HP MediaSmart EX490 and EX495 Home Servers beef up Mac support 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/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
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What do you mean, where's my medication?]]>Sep 15th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/09/14/hp-mediasmart-server-ex495-unboxed/



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you basically tell it that certain shares you want duplicated and it makes sure the files are on more than one physical disk.

Why I like this over a RAID-1/5/10 setup is that I have videos and downloads that I don't really care about, and music that my friends have as well so I don't need to waste the drive space to have them duplicated.

Same with my PC backup files, if i have 500GB to backup from my PC, I don't need the backup to be on RAID because I'm willing to deal with the risk of either the PC drive or the server drive dying, but don't need to waste the space to stop both one drive from the server and my pc drive from dying at the same time. That's not too likely.

I have the old hp server and it's still great and much faster than most standalone NAS devices until you start spending more money on them than the HP costs.]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
As for that one tradeoff, would your typical RAID array have the OS in the array anyways, or on its own disk? I would have expected the latter, meaning it's not any worse here. :)]]>Sep 15th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/09/14/new-hp-mediaserver-ex490-ex495-home-servers-announced/ (second-to-last paragraph)]]>Sep 15th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
Four CableCard HD tuners that can be set from anywhere in the house (or over the Internet), and from which I can download my recordings in any format I wish.

Call me when you roll this out...]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-includes-enhancements-for-windows-7-based-computers.aspx]]>Sep 15th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/well looks like my parents just scored a new piece of hardware
EX495 here I come!

]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 16th 2009 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/crashed after 2 months, primary hard drive died, took 4 months for customer service to tell me that.
Doesn't work, keeps ignoring the second bay.]]>Sep 15th 2009 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2009/05/05/hp-announces-software-upgrades-and-european-availability-for-mediasmart-servers/

There are also instructions on some of the home server sites on how to do it yourself today if you are so inclined.]]>Sep 15th 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 16th 2009 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
The HP one does have some proprietary tech that handles -- like this article said -- Mac backups in TimeMachine and a few other things, but other than that, everything that the HP advertises works on the Acer box because it's WinServer 2008.]]>Sep 15th 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
Also, when will there be a price drop on these things? Since their inception, the prices have dropped from insane (~$700) to moderate (~350). Don't give me any drives, just the hardware for about $200 and I'm sold!]]>Sep 15th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 16th 2009 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/
Read: can I just upgrade my EX-485 to a dual core processor?

Yeah, I've read up on people actually doing that already, but I wonder how HP has coped with the hotter processors- improved things or just left it as is since it may have originally been overengineered anyway?]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 15th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Sep 17th 2009 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Oct 2nd 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/hp-mediasmart-ex490-and-ex495-home-servers-beef-up-mac-support/Oct 5th 2009 1:33PM