HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server

HP EX470 500GB Mediasmart Home Server. Several PC to your home often means photos, music, videos and files scattered and difficult to locate. The HP MediaSmart Server provides a central location to store all your files for easy access. Centralize and share your files and media in your home network. D'remote access to files on your server and run applications on your PC from any Internet-connected computer. Stream photos, music and video on computers in your network or your TV or stereo. Sharing photos via the Web used as a time intense and sometimes frightening effort. With HP Photo Webshare, however, you can quickly and automatically create a Web site on your server and share photos and video clips with only friends and family you designate. Easy to set up a personal web address that visitors can use to view photos on your webshare. Set up automatic emails to notify friends and family to share various photo albums. Visitors can download their own pictures to share and download full-resolution photos or be linked to the photo printing for Snapfish. As you accumulate increasing amounts of digital content while keeping protected becomes a task much time. The HP MediaSmart Server takes the worry out of data protection by automatically saving all your important media and other files. Gain peace of mind through easy backup of household PCs and notebooks running Windows XP, and later operating systems. Designate files to be copied automatically to multiple hard disks for an extra layer of protection unnecessary. Restoring individual files or an entire hard disk of PCs in the event of failure of hardware or software. Four bays for internal hard drives, four USB 2.0 ports and one eSATA port for the storage of extensions. Easily extra storage shelf with SATA installation requires no tools or cables.

The EX470 MediaSmart Server features a 500 GB internal hard drive (SATA, 7200 RPM), 512 MB of installed DDR2 RAM, four hard drive bays for additional expansion using off-the-shelf SATA I or II hard drives, a Gigabit Ethernet port for ultra-fast networking (and connection to a wireless router), four USB 2.0 ports (1 on the front, 3 on the back) for connecting to additional hard drives, and an and an eSATA port for high-speed data transfer to external storage devices--up to 6 times faster than existing solutions.

It's quick and easy to set up your HP MediaSmart Server and create up to 10 user accounts using the Microsoft Windows Home Server software. You can also open a predefined Guest account for additional file sharing capabilities. The HP MediaSmart Server also lets you set up your own secure personal web address to allow file access by remote users.