Hp mediasmart server ex470 2 tb hard drives

#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 2 TB HARD DRIVES 64 BIT#
#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 2 TB HARD DRIVES UPGRADE#
#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 2 TB HARD DRIVES WINDOWS#

Why not just use a Raspberry Pi? Apart from the solid chassis and power supply, even the original-spec MediaSmart soundly beats a Pi at just about everything. And thereвЂ™s no comparison when it comes to Ethernet and SATA I/O performance! I presumed that I could locate these components on eBay (or Weird Stuff)! The HP MediaSmart might have an old single-core x86 CPU but itвЂ™s still a lot faster than most ARM boards, including my favorite ARM storage server, the Olimex LIME2 A20.

#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 2 TB HARD DRIVES UPGRADE#

The stock CPU is a single-core 90 nm вЂњManilaвЂќ Sempron 3400+, but the вЂњBrisbaneвЂќ 65 nm dual-core chip makes a nice upgrade and stays inside the MediaSmartвЂ™s meager power and cooling envelope. Some research showed that the MediaSmartвЂ™s CPU and RAM could be upgraded somewhat: The MediaSmart uses a standard (if outdated) BIOS and supports 2 GB DDR2 DIMMs and a few different Socket AM2 CPU models. Maybe, I wondered, this little guy could be pressed back into service. The solid chassis is smaller than the three Lord of the Rings books, and the nifty locking hard disk drive carriers are nicer than those found on many servers today. I wasnвЂ™t going to take the little MediaSmart until I saw how well-made it was. Although not exactly up to todayвЂ™s standards, this hardware is decent enough to consider resurrecting.

#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 2 TB HARD DRIVES 64 BIT#

The first single-drive MediaSmart EX470 (and identical dual-drive EX475) featured four 3.5вЂі SATA disk drive bays, a gigabit Ethernet port, a single-core 1.8 GHz 64 bit AMD CPU, and 512 MB of RAM. Inside Home Server was MicrosoftвЂ™s innovative Drive Extender software, giving these devices Drobo-like flexibility.

#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 2 TB HARD DRIVES WINDOWS#

HP released the first MediaSmart server in 2008, and there was much interest at the time both for the compact yet innovative hardware and the embedded Windows Home Server operating system. This old HP MediaSmart EX480 is out of retirement, with more memory and Linux! Remembering the MediaSmart HereвЂ™s how I upgraded the hardware and software. Although it has no graphics, a slow single-core AMD Sempron CPU, and just 512 MB of RAM, I was able to revive it quite satisfactorily. Windows Home Server will ship to system builder with a price tag of approximately $200.I was recently given an old HP MediaSmart EX470 server along with some other junk hardware. Additionally, a few websites world wide also managed to leak the price for the system builder version of Windows Home Server, via Bink. In this regard, Sider kept his initial promise that Windows Home Server bundled with OEM hardware will cost in the range of a low end PC. HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live/ 64 Bit Sempron Processor, 500 GB Hard Drive) and HP EX475 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live/ 64 Bit Sempron Processor, 1 TB Hard Drive) are the two HP servers that will be delivered for $596 and $745, respectively. And according to, Hewlett-Packard start selling two versions of HP MediaSmart Server preloaded with Windows Home Server beginning with September 15, 2007. However, the first Microsoft partner to deliver Windows Home Server bundled with its own hardware is HP. OEM products are still forthcoming,' revealed Sider. Distributors selling the system builder version determine their own schedules and pricing, of course. As most know, we released Home Server to manufacturing last month, handing if off to OEMs for their retail products and making the system builder version available to distributors worldwide. It is great to see that the system builder version has indeed made its way through the distribution channel in some markets. 'The date refers to when tech support goes live for system builders. And in this context, the ball is in the court of original equipment manufacturer as far as the availability dates and pricing are concerned. The product formerly codenamed Quattro and Project Q was released to manufacturing to OEMs in July. Joel Sider, the PR Manager for Home Server made it clear that the entry on the MSFT tech support website cannot be associated with a general availability date of Windows Home Server. Furthermore, the Redmond company denied that the product will be released on August 27, as previously reported. Microsoft has confirmed neither the price nor the availability date of Windows Home Server.

Hp mediasmart server ex470 2 tb hard drives