Comments on: Review and Giveaway: HP MediaSmart 1TB Server

By: CrunchDeals: HP MediaSmart Home Server for $450

CrunchDeals: HP MediaSmart Home Server for $450 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:00:32 +0000

[...] You can check out Matt’s review of a similar HP setup right here. [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:47:18 +0000

I’d love to consolidate all my backups, Top Gear episodes, photos and music from my machine and others in the house.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:03:01 +0000

Having lost my Netgear NAS (SC101) the device fried and in the process fried both the HDDs contained within. Lost everything. All my pictures of my children, wedding ect. (Yes I was running mirrored). I do like the fact that it is switch-off-able.

PVR recorded TV Shows are replacable (eventually when the episodes are re-aired), MP3s take a little time to re-rip from my CDs but the pictures are irreplacable. Since HP seems to have a good track record with me (2 HP laptops at home) was looking for something to replace my SC101 and was not going to go with a seperate Netgear offering. Sharing USB drives works, but they do have their limitations.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:51:03 +0000

pick me, pick me.

By: CrunchDeals: 1.25TB HP MediaSmart home server for $548

CrunchDeals: 1.25TB HP MediaSmart home server for $548 — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:56:38 +0000

[...] CPU, 2GB of RAM, four slide-out hard drive bays, four USB ports, and one eSATA port. Check out Burnsy’s MediaSmart review for more info about how everything works. Spoiler alert: he says “HP has a winner on its [...]

By: Joni Williams

Joni Williams — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:40:26 +0000

I need a centralized area for pics, videos, and my documents and a lot more space for our family. I would love to watch my recorded shows from my kitchen! Its such a hassle when we buy new computers or one goes down and all of our drives are full. It would be so nice to see if the server would solve a lot of our issues.
Thanks for the chance!

By: CyberPower gets into the Windows Home Server game

CyberPower gets into the Windows Home Server game — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:00:59 +0000

[...] Server 100. An Intel Atom 330 1.6Ghz is at the core running on a MB with video out (something the HP MediaSmart does not have and is handy to have), 2GB of RAM, and Gigabit Ethernet. Sadly, there is only a 500GB [...]

By: Stratovarius

Stratovarius — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:37:23 +0000

I would like the get this server and rip it to shreds… Windows these days is good.. but Solaris 10 rules :)

By: Clay Gradis

Clay Gradis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:25:17 +0000

I’d love an Home Server to backup the photos of my baby. Currently I’m using an online service to do backups but it sure would be cool to own the backup device instead of depending upon others to provide a service.

By: phil matthews

phil matthews — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:16:54 +0000

Just before Christmas I built a “trial” WHS on a Fujitsu Esprimo 5030 i have to say WHS is the best thing I’ve seen MS do in a long time. I’ve tweaked it somewhat to allow WMP11 to install on WHS and use UNC paths, added the fantastic Vista Media centre IPlayer addin on the clients, Utorrent to download (other versions of WHS), added two extra drives to store all of the movies I get for my boys.
All of this blatant infringement is simply to control what content my 2 and 4 yr. old boys have access to and remove all of the crappy adverts which run every ten mins on kids channels. Please help me go straight and provide a better example to the younger generations. Failure to do so could potentially result in the corruption of those two tiny impressionable minds.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:58:18 +0000

I would like to to put my 600gb+ collection of TV Shows/Movies, not to mention my 100gb collection of music/photos scattered accross multipal DVD’s and external hard drives. :-)

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:35:33 +0000

Awesome product. Above and beyond the out of the box OEM install of WHS.

By: HP’s new MediaSmart NAS lets Apple in on the party

HP’s new MediaSmart NAS lets Apple in on the party — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:36:25 +0000

[...] We just reviewed and gave away one of these things, and now they’re dropping a new one! Well, that’s the business we’re in. The new HP MediaSmart server works with both Windows and OS X, so if you’re on a mac and don’t want to pay a premium for a brushed-aluminum NAS, this may be your lucky day. [...]

By: Juvenal Brenes

Juvenal Brenes — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:12:21 +0000

we need one for the, Dominican Climbing and Mounteneering Asoc. its a non-profit org. we need a simple way to have a server…LOW cost…pick us….!

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:46:12 +0000

I must backup my life, soon!!!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:41:24 +0000

I love the WIndows Home Server, it has saved my butt more than once! Currently i have a home built monster that is on the very low scale of adequate. i would love to win this server so i have at least one PC in my house that isnt home built or a rebuilt PC.

By: luddy

luddy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:18:17 +0000

Did I win?

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:58:06 +0000

I need to backup my huge CD and DVD collection.

By: Robert Hal

Robert Hal — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:42:12 +0000

I build my own from parts from TigerDirect, but I would LOVE to have a TB of WHS from HP!

By: Geo

Geo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:41:53 +0000

What a cute little home server…..