Following on from the announcement from HP quite a few months ago about the software update for owners of the EX47x and EX48x series of HP MediaSmart Windows Home Servers, the update was supposed to be released in December.
Obviously it is now December 18th and the update is not available.
We got this from HP to share with you all:
In the latter stages of testing our 3.0 software update, a couple of issues were discovered with the upgrade disks. One was related to compatibility with PowerPack 3 and the other with the media streaming software. Both issues have fixes and we are now going back through our build and testing process. As a result, the 3.0 software update DVD availability will now be in February. While this delay was unexpected, we remain committed to providing this upgrade path for owners of our EX470/475/485/487 products. As previously communicated, these upgrades will be available as a server recovery solution.
The cost of the upgrade DVD has been finalized and will be US$25 or €25.
So, more information when we get it sometime in early 2010.
I hope this is it and there wouldn't be any other problems.
I cant wait I hope it doesn't interfere with my CPU upgrade.
Kiarash
I hope so too – but better to have it delayed a little while longer than be released too early and it cause problems.
As for your CPU upgrade, I would imagine that HP would only support the "original" out of the box hardware for the MediaSmarts and so any upgrade performed on modified hardware would be at your own risk, but I cant see any reason why it shouldnt work as advertised.
Andrew
Yes Im sure it will work.
I actually had a chance to call in for a problem I was having early this week and they told me to make sure I upgrade the ram for the 3.0 update and I asked them about the cpu and he didn't say anything. lol
🙂 cool!
I upgraded the ram ages ago and just never got round to the CPU.
may just do it now to try it!
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Its Febuary now, any more news on the update? How will we know when it is available?
Hi David
HP are doing some final testing and plan to release this month, subject to there being no problems. So watch this space.
As soon as I get an official update that I am allowed to publish I will 🙂
Andrew