Isn’t it great when sites like Amazon are given information regarding a product, and they publish the details right away. I think Amazon is known for leaking pricing and release dates of items, and they’re at it again with the HP MediaSmart Home Server.
Amazon had two different pages setup for the MediaSmart Servers: a 500GB model and a 1TB model. Both of them had the launch prices posted (which I’ve provided below) and have since been removed. The release date, announced as September 15th late November, will mark the beginning of a bright future for Windows Home Server.
Here are the specs as provided by Amazon:
- HP MediaSmart EX470 (GG795AA#ABA)
Cost: $599 (£299)
Processor: AMD LIVE 64 1.8 Ghz Sempron
Storage: 500GB (1 x 500GB)
Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.2 x 5.5 inches
External USB Ports: 4 - HP MediaSmart EX475 (GG796AA#ABA)
Cost: $749 (£374)
Processor: AMD LIVE 64 1.8 Ghz Sempron
Storage: 1TB (2 x 500GB)
Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.2 x 5.5 inches
External USB Ports: 4
The HP MediaSmart Servers will also be supplied with the HP Photo Webshare software, which makes it easy to securely share your photos with friends and family. I’ve also heard that this software will let other people share photos with you. I’m really interested to see how that will work.
Unfortunately there is no mention of how much memory (RAM) the computers will have, but I would guess that they will be supplied with at least 1GB. Overall I think the price for the system sounds reasonable, and I may have to consider picking one of these up.
Source: We Got Served [via Engadget]
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Tags: Hardware, Amazon, Cost, Leaked, Microsoft, Release Date, Windows Home Server
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I also believe the price point is good. I have checked out 1TB NAS systems that are around $500. For the extra money, you get a full blown server with expandable storage.
I too believe, I will pick one of these up when I can afford it, probably early next year.
Not only that but it just looks sweet.
Definitely affordable and something I think will do really well!
The pricing is impressive – assuming the system works well and fast enough to be streaming music/video to a number of other PCs at once it could be a real hit – desktop PCs that are being bought by the average user have ever increasing hard drive space and yet all they use it for is storage. With this, the only need for local storage space is for games, which is a smaller percentage of the market. It also makes sense seeing as most families are begining to own more than one PC, and it’s a pain sharing large music or photo archives over a normal windows network.
This system also acts as a centralized backup point for all the PCs on the LAN. For all the capabilities that are offered this looks like a great price point to me.