By Philip Churchill on January 10th, 2008
PCMAG.COM review the HP MediaSmart Server EX470
PCMAG.COM have a detailed review on the HP MediaSmart Server EX470. The 4 page review concludes by stating the following:
Overall, the MediaSmart sets the current standard for home NAS servers: It’s the new Editors’ Choice in this class. Fast performance on Gigabit Ethernet networks coupled with a nice price and Windows Home Server ease of use make this a package most home networks will enjoy.
Read it here.
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http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/946676 Says it all…
“files may become corrupted when you save them to the (Windows) home server”…
What idiots at PC Magazine would praise WHS with this serious DATA CORRUPTION issue? Which still haven’t been FIXED at all!
Why doesn’t Microsoft take care of this PROBLEM? Just talk about how great WHS, skipping over the FACT, your data can be corrupted isn’t what I would call or anyone with important data, photos and videos plus a music collection to be excited about…
Let’s hear something about what is being done to resolve this problem Microsoft!!!!
So ironic, PC magazine awards praising about WHS and on the other hand testifies with acknowledgment this WHS product is plagued with DATA CORRUPTION.
Evidence of the Proof ;(
File Corruptions Plague Windows Home Server
PC Magazine – Dec 27, 2007
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2241651,00.asp
‘Course the EX470 is the single drive version, and as such is immune from the data corruption bug, and even the problems with the data corruption bug occur only under some pretty specific conditions (i.e. high load AND duplicated shares AND editing a file on a share using specific software… etc).
Single drive EX470 isn’t immune from data corruption.
Read the previous post:
WHS Corrupts Backup Files with unexpected Reboot
http://www.mswhs.com/2007/11/19/should-i-re-boot-whs
In fact, WHS Drive Extender technology has been suggested to be the reason why WHS is flawed regarding multiple drives.
What the point of having a Windows Home Server if it’s going to corrupt you data?
WHS is supposed to be that backup agent, instead of the cause of data loss, right?
And let’s NOT forget Microsoft’s FolderShare — an application intended to sync files on multiple systems — was deleting user’s files instead of syncing them too!
Who wants to buy WHS and then NEVER to add additional hard drives, knowing this issue can happen without warning corrupting all your data?
Shouldn’t this serious problem be resolved rather than to suggest customers need to live with it? Or is that, wait a year more like Vista to fix all them issues which many still remain?
Data corruption isn’t accepted Microsoft!
WHS needs a disclosure of facts, such as a warning label, indicating if you use this product, it will corrupt your data accordingly: http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/946676
“When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server.” – Microsoft’s own words as posted by the above URL
Here Here – No truers words are spoken. I love the “concept” of WHS, ie supposed plug and play file server for regular folks, but the fact that the data corruption bug is so widespread and is pretty capable of deleting priceless files(home movies, pics, financial files), it’s useless to me and the rest of the world except as a beta hobby project. It’s a cute idea MS but no dice. NOTE: I own a copy of WHS and bought a server specifically for it but do not want to put my family’s files on it.
I will give MS the benefit of the doubt and believe this will get fixed in the future, but until then I’m stuck with a linux based alternative(freenas) until it’s proven that data corruption is no longer occuring within WHS. I just hope they don’t force me to buy “WHS2” in order to get the needed/required fixes.
Prospective buyers please read this.
It is NOT true that data corruption occurs only in heavy or unusual use. On the very first day, with only occasional access from 3 workstations, I lost a Microsoft Access database and my company books on Quickbooks.
Having spent the weekend setting this up, I will now spend a day moving everything back where it came from, then unplug this turkey and ship it back to HP.
Not only is this a credibility nightmare for HP (Microsoft lost their credibility when they released Vista), but also for PC Mag. You guys really should do your readers a favor: every single day that these corruption machines are shipped, they destroy people’s data. Microsoft’s published solution is to set the thing to be READ-ONLY. A read-only server! What a concept!
Microsoft in late summer issued a service pack which purports to fix the date corruption problem. Does anybody have any feedback as to whether the problem is still out there?
Judging by the lack of responses since your last post , i guess the teething probelm has gone away .. i am right in the middle of bidding one of these units .. beit half the RRP.
I’m seriously considering the http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS207+/index.php , it has rave reviews .. and appears to be the only NAS that actually works
only tempted by the £150 pricetag of the HP whereas the DS207+ is £200 quid without drives.
I just read the above gobul de goop, and was far from impressed. Had they followed the instructions, they would not have had the problems they listed. I have had and use the EX470 since it was first released, and have encountered none of the problems listed. I have four 500 GB drives internal and two 500 GB external USB drives. Everything including Backups, streaming both audio and video to my Home entertainment system have worked flawlessly after some tinkering. If they don’t like their HP MediaSmart devices, then give them to somebody who knows what they are doing.