For those of you patiently waiting for news from HP on the promise 3.0 software update for existing HP MediaSmart owners, wait no more as this came from HP today....
Starting today – Wednesday 26th August 2009 for TWO DAYS ONLY, if you buy either the HP MediaSmart EX485 or the EX487 directly from HP you will get an instant rebate of $150.
As previously announced, owners of the EX470/475 MediaSmart Servers can now download two new applications for their Servers. The online backup application allows customers to designate specific shared folders on their Server for secure upload to the Amazon S3 service. Doing so provides an additional layer of data protection for the most important photos, documents and other files on your Windows Home Server.
Up until now, there have only been a few really big players in the Windows Home Server hardware market – probably the biggest being HP. Now, Acer steps onto the playing field with their Aspire easyStore H340 Windows Home Server.
So the HP MediaSmart Server EX485 and EX487 Windows Home Server has been available now since January 2009, and is the “follow up” to the hugely successful EX470 and EX475 models. I have been using the EX487 as my main production WHS for a few months now and figured it was about time to post the review.
HP have annoucned that will now release the recent MediaSmart Server 2.5 Update for owners of the EX470, EX475 and LX195. They have also announced the release of the EX485, EX487 and LX195 in Europe.
