The servers are no longer the exclusive machines used in offices to reach households. The American amps Hewlett Packard has its range of home servers with HP MediaSmart EX490 and EX495. A very useful solution when it has a large amount of data and the computer’s hard disk is not enough.
Hewlett Packard’s proposals really are simple. Its salient feature is that to enhance compatibility with Mac in comparison with other HP servers. Users of Apple computers will have new management tools, such as “bare metal recovery”. A program for making backups from outside the system. They also grow the number of features included in Windows Home Server operating system.
The basic model, the EX490, uses an Intel Celeron 2.2 GHz and comes with 1 terabyte (TB) basis. The EX495 in turn works with a Pentium Dual Core 2.5 GHz and is 1.5 TB. However, both models have four slots to increase capacity to 7 TB (terabytes) of internal storage. In turn, these are expanded to 17 TB when combined with external 10TB is capable of handling the machine. The two RAM is 2GB and DDR2 type.
They have an Ethernet connector and one eSATA, which allows server content can be shared by multiple computers within a local area network. With cables, offers four USB ports. They come with a video format converter that supports DVDs, care, have no copy protection. That is, a minority composed primarily of home recordings. Owners of iPod and iPhone for its part shall have specific uses, called iStream as a service that is downloaded from the Apple App Store. By chance he will tune the content of their media players with the server.
For now available for pre order in the U.S.. The HP MediaSmart EX490 price is $ 550, about 377 euros at the exchange, while the HP MediaSmart EX495 is $ 700, 480 euros.
