mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2007 | server, home, nas, storage
This could be a really good solution for home backup and shared storage. For $600 you get 500GB of storage, with room to expand to 2TB via the 4 hot-swappable SATA drive bays -> total cost about $900. Compares favorably to a Buffalo TeraStation - and probably much faster as the TeraStation is known to have performance problems due to a slow processor.
Quoted: Amazon.com: HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live/ 64 Bit Sempron Processor, 500 GB Hard Drive): Computers & PC Hardware
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2007 | microsoft, server, home, nas, storage
I hadn't noticed Microsoft shipped this Home Server product this fall. This site is a clever "viral marketing" campaign to promote it, featuring a Stephen Colbert look-a-like who does a series of interviews to cover the "controversy" of having a Home Server.
This second video on this site is particularly funny.
Home Server provides:
- Backup
- Remote Access
- Media Storage and StreamingI wish I had looked into using this before buying the NAS I'm using at home as it looks like a more complete solution than just "storage" on my home network. It also seems that the software is priced competitively in that 1T servers are selling in the $700 price range (MS provides a software download for evaluation only - you have to buy a pre-installed version of Home Server from a hardware manufacturer).
The development team's blog is at:
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