Need information on HP's MediaSmart EX495 Home Server

[Spiero]

I want to buy a media server PC. I had found a recommended model for that which is called as mediasmart ex495 server. I need some information on the software and features of this server. Does this server offer media streaming. What is the limitation in that. What are the different hardware support and positive point of this server.

[deoWo]

The HP has guaranteed to improve the software for the EX47 and EX48 models to grasp them up with what the EX49 models can do, particularly by permitting owners to acquire software improve DVDs. Initially, these updates were believed to become obtainable before the end of 2009 due to a number of problems with PowerPack 3 and media streaming software that necessitated supplementary revolutionize and testing as the DVD was being readied for discharge. This be supposed to put all of the different MediaSmart Servers on a additional equal footing, apart from for the augmented memory and processing power obtainable to newer age groups, and might once again shift the “best-buy” equilibrium toward a number of actually enormous deals at present on older EX48 and EX47 models.

[RoninBlade]

It has given the greater than before competence and worth of the EX49 models, and the comparatively diminutive price differences connecting the EX48 and EX49 servers, you are almost certainly improved off buying the most recent model, although, unless you opt for a used or a refurbished unit at even subordinate prices. You still utilize an EX475 on one or our home networks each day (upgraded to a dual-core BE-3250 CPU), and it has executed perfectly for additional than two years doing nightly system backups, streaming media, and contribution a unpretentious family Web site to friends and relatives.

[Fabian]

The most excellent characteristic of this service is Backup and reinstate: HP captures and accumulates driver information in sequent on machines backed up to the MSS on the MSS. These can be used in tandem with nonspecific boot media that HP in addition presents to execute bare-metal restores on several backed-up PCs. Supplementary standard Windows backup and restore functions are also sustained and maintained.

[Hardwareman]

The server in addition gives an alternative of right of entry to public and confidential server folders: the WHS software is predestined on Windows Server 2003, and presents the similar right of entry controls to NTFS storage and the similar kinds of maintain for client and collection accounts as that server OS makes obtainable. Public Web site: with an UPnP-capable router and an unassuming domain name registration fee, MSS owners can institute a public Web occurrence at extremely little expenditure or supplementary endeavor. Any non-streaming files might be made publicly obtainable, and the similar account/password amalgamations used to log into MSS accounts might also be accessed distantly.

[Maxforu]

In the server you can obtain Media streaming and distribution alternative on the audio side, this means which is sustain and maintain for .wav, .mp3, and non-.aac iTunes music formats, plus native maintain for client-side iTunes and Windows Media Player. On the video side, this means which is sustain and maintain for .avi, .mov, .dvr-ms, .mpv, and undefended DVD .vob (there's no support for sheltered DVDs, MPEG-1, -2, or -4, .mts, .avc (H.264), .mkv, and additional video camera clip formats). You can distribute music; video and images may be made obtainable to users through shares of the similar name.