Another build list, this one by Carlo Mendoza which is currently enclosure free and is based around the DQ45EK mini-ITX board which offers cool, compact and silent operation and is also low power. Read it here.
Another great article for owners of HPs EX485/487 is on accessing your media remotely. The five page tutorial takes you through the various steps for enabling remote access, including adding users, configuring your router and how to setup the dynamic domain name service. This is all concluded with troubleshooting procedures in case you may need […]
Carl Tyler bought a Drobo and Droboshare last year and told a Microsoft friend that he thought a Drobo combined with a Windows Home Server (WHS) could make a great device, his friend rightly replied that WHS did all that Drobo did and more. A few days later at home was a HP MediaSmart EX470, […]
A couple of articles which caught my eye today, the first being another Windows Home Server build list with the requirement of being low energy and cheap. The build list is here. The second article is blogger Tim Heuer’s review of the EX487 Home Server from HP. You can read it here.
The Home Server Show website has a great post on how to run HP Upline from inside the Windows Home Server console. HP Upline allows unlimited secure online backup. It’s not designed to run in Windows Home Server, but following this tutorial will allow you to do so. You can read it here.
A session on Home Server will be held at DACS, which is several local computer organizations on March 2nd 2009 in Connecticut in the US. Presented by Jay Ferron, who is a CIO for Interactive Security Training, LLC the free event is taking place at the Danbury Hospital auditorium in Danbury, CT. Activities begin at […]
MediaSmarthome.com has a tutorial on how to upload your pics to Flickr using the HP Photo Publisher on the EX48x range of MediaSmart Server’s. The guide only takes 5 – 10 minutes to complete and for those with an existing EX47x model the article recommends using the PhotoSync Beta2 for Windows Home Server add-in as […]
Website “Creative Lifestyle Review” has a review of the HP EX485 MediaSmart Server and goes through the various software features and specifications of the new unit form HP. Read it here.
The Windows Home Server 100 is another small form factor home-based server, this time from CyberPower Inc. a manufacturer of custom gaming machines and high performance workstations. The unit features a Intel energy-saving ATOM 330 Dual Core CPU (45nm, FSB 533MHz, 1.6GHz, 1 MB L2) on a Intel Mini-ITX mainboard with Gigabit Ethernet, a 500GB […]
If you would you like to know how to back up an Apple Mac with the new range of HP MediaSmart Server’s, then the Using Windows Home Server site has the details. Author Andrew Edney takes us through the steps necessary to get your Mac backups working with the EX485 or EX487 from HP. You […]
