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oakman1000
10/23/09

In reply to HP MediaSmart EX495 Windows Home Server Review (Better Time Machine Support!)
I could be wrong, but I think you can't stream Hi def TV recordings from it...right?
I use media center and now that no one makes media center extenders anymore, the only option is to stream to other computers around the home. If the server cant stream HDTV to other PC's, what's the point in having all of your media in a place that cant stream most of it? #hpex495review
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Xeno
10/23/09

@oakman1000: I don't see why it shouldn't be able to. The processor is plenty fast. My 360 is quite able to stream HD from my media center PC that is stored on a NAS so I don't see why this shouldn't be able to. #hpex495review
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oakman1000
10/23/09

@Xeno: Yes, your right you it could stream to an Xbox because of its MCE extender capabilities. It cant stream to other PC's because of DRM. The only option at the moment to stream HDTV to other rooms is through an Xbox. I don't want Xboxes all around my home + they are too noisy for bedrooms. #hpex495review
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Xeno
10/23/09

@oakman1000: The DRM is annoying but some of it suposedly goes away with Win 7 MC. Hopefully most of my recordings will be open after I upgrade. Possibly not since cable companies are a$$holes most of the time. I've mitigated the XBox noise with furniture cabinets but a nice power full extender(or a new quieter xbox would be welcome for sure). #hpex495review
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dagamer34
10/23/09

In reply to HP MediaSmart EX495 Windows Home Server Review (Better Time Machine Support!)
Any real reason to get the dual-core version over the single-core one? Hard drive space can easily be expanded, but swapping CPUs would take some more work. #hpex495review
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mattycakes
10/23/09

In reply to HP MediaSmart EX495 Windows Home Server Review (Better Time Machine Support!)
I have absolutely zero need for a home server, but now I really, really want one. #hpex495review
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Xeno
10/23/09

@mattycakes: Then invent some needs so you can justify it to yourself. Simple. #hpex495review
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D0rk
10/23/09

In reply to HP MediaSmart EX495 Windows Home Server Review (Better Time Machine Support!)
I was hoping for more storage in stock trim for those prices. I really want one but it would total to nearly a thousand dollars by the time I got done putting in enough hard drives to increase the storage and add RAID. #hpex495review
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Rejexted
10/23/09

In reply to HP MediaSmart EX495 Windows Home Server Review (Better Time Machine Support!)
can I hook up to this thing when I'm not home? #hpex495review
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Barry99705
10/23/09

@Rejexted: Yep. #hpex495review
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jetRink
10/23/09

@Rejexted: Yes, you get a personal web address to go to where you can access your server and any PCs on the network through remote desktop. You can also stream any music or media that you have on the server, so you could listen to your collection at work through the web client. #hpex495review
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Moonshadow101
10/23/09

@jetRink: Is this a native element of WHS or is it an HP addition? #hpex495review
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Xeno
10/23/09

@Moonshadow101: Native to WHS. #hpex495review
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Barry99705
10/23/09

In reply to HP MediaSmart EX495 Windows Home Server Review (Better Time Machine Support!)
I wish they'd release their components to other WHS users. I have a home built home server, which rocks, but have to keep my G5 tower for our iTunes media server running as well. #hpex495review
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salviati
09/15/09

In reply to HP's MediaSmart EX490 and EX495 Have Additional Mac Functionality, More Video Encoding
So is the 490 mainly a software update (with a slightly bigger hard drive). I may want to backup my Mac, but I see no other significant upgrade from the EX485. Can the software update be applied to the 485 as well?
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UnderLoK
09/15/09

@salviati: This isn't Apple man, just because a new one comes out doesn't mean you need to buy it ;)
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Chimaera
09/15/09

In reply to HP's MediaSmart EX490 and EX495 Have Additional Mac Functionality, More Video Encoding
According to We Got Served:
EX 490: 2.2GHz, 2GB, 1x1TB @ $549
EX 495: 2.5GHz, 2GB, 1x1.5TB @ $699

Fall release. (I'm guessing October)
Both $50 less than their EX 48x counterparts.
They've been testing for a few weeks; retail packaging.

[www.wegotserved.com]
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jeepingeek
09/15/09

In reply to HP's MediaSmart EX490 and EX495 Have Additional Mac Functionality, More Video Encoding
Does this mean the 485 will soon be going on sale? I've had my eye on that for a while but my wife seems to think I have enough computers and that the nearly $500 is a bit too much for another toy. I really don't understand what she is talking about.
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Chimaera
09/15/09

@jeepingeek: Probably, but if you're unwilling/unable to wait, there's a few Amazon Merchants selling the 485 @ $420
[www.amazon.com]
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Les Mikesell
08/13/09

In reply to DLNA Media Center Software, Compiled and Simplified
They forgot this one:
[code.google.com]
And its not just for ps3's anymore.
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kurmiic
06/16/09

In reply to Warning: Xbox Live and Zune Services Down Midnight PST, Tonight
this sucks balls .... you can't even watch videos streaming from windows media player .... how retarded is that ... ?? Why would you need to be SIGNED IN to decode divx ????

LAAAMEEE

LAAAAAMMEEEEE

MICROSOFT you can seriously suck ass sometimes....
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OMG! Ponies!
06/16/09

@kurmiic: I'm sorry. It's so terrible that they have to do maintenance on their equipment and that they schedule it in such a way as to minimize disruption. How dare they!
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MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star!
05/21/09

In reply to Acer Aspire easyStore Expandable 1TB Windows Home Server Cube Is $400
Idk how someone could fill up 4TB.. I have 1TB and still have about 400GB free.
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MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star!
05/21/09

@mfischer579: Srry 7TB.. not 4
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Sora57 is rendering
05/21/09

@mfischer579: Well, this is a digital media server, and if you work with HD video files, it's not that hard to fill up. You have to import all the raw footage and then do your post production work on it.
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
05/21/09

@mfischer579: Ive been collecting anime for a few years on optical drives that I burned when I found that after 139 DVDs of licensed anime that I owned was taking up a lot of space and some English translation left a lot to be desired. I would download fansubs before they became licensed of of news groups and amassed about 2100 (over 3 years) CDs before I realized I wasn't doing it right :( I moved to dual layer DVDs as I was discovering Bearshare and faster News Group download due to blazing-fast 3 Mbps cable.... I only went up to 296 of these DVD's before I realized optical wasn't the way. So I begin downloading onto hard drives filled up 4 x 20GB, 2 x 80GB, 1 x 160GB, 2 x 400GB, 4 x 500GB, and 2 x 1TB; that was last November. I had two many hard drives lying around and I wanted to rebuild my computer, my library, get some new tech.

I decided to build a media power house just for housing my stuff!! I bought a nice CoolerMaster Cosmos-S case with 6 internal 3.5 bays (Core i7, 6GB Ram... yada yada yada...). By this time my cable internet was 10x faster at 30Mbps and I felt the need to rebuild my collection of anime from scratch and have everything well organized and consistent (in format, naming, quality, etc...)

Short story long, I'm on my third 1.5TB drive and that's 20% full. Took me 3 months to fill up the first one, one month to fill up the second one, and I've had this third one for two weeks this Friday and expect two hundred more gigs by Monday.

Friend, you see... from my perspective, they can't make these damn things large enough and I only have 578 of the 3000 or so series I NEED(!) and some of these series have hundreds of episodes so I have some ways to go :(

...and yes, I have a problem... a space problem. I have a plan to rotate my drives every set of 4 I get and Ebay the old ones to offset the cost of buying new ones but my plan is only good if I get to double the capacity of each drives with every set. So someone needs to release the 3 TB HDs ad make then cheap by July or I'll have problems.

...and yes, I watch most of them... I don't go to movies or watch television so this is pretty much my visual entertainment. I have to feed it :(
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Dafrety
05/21/09

@okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): Wow. Have you ever thought about compressing the files until you watch them?
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
05/21/09

@Dafrety: I cant really... The formats are MP4, OGM, MKV, DivX, etc... so it's pretty compressed. It's literally the shear amount of them. I have 13000 video files right now with an average size of 230MB per file. Each file has a n average length of 24 minutes and resolutions vary from 640x480 to 1280x720 (all at about 30fps). The compression is generally high.
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Hilo
05/21/09

@okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under):

"...and yes, I watch most of them..."

Wow...

(3500gb)/(200mb episode) = 17,500 episodes

(15,500)(20 minutes)/(60 minutes) = 5800 hours of anime

@8 hours of sleep per night

(5185 hours)/(16 hours awake) = 365 solid days of anime

That's one FULL year of watching anime, assuming you do nothing else ...that's a lot.

Are you sure you're not collecting merely to have it? hording treasure? Heh.
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
05/21/09

@Hilo: No... I've been watching anime for over 13 years. though the higest frequency was back in high school and college... watch about 10-15 hours a week now and follow mostly current fan-subbed series (about 5 to 10 per season). The hobby is probably the cheapest one I've ever kept honestly in terms of time and money.

I used to live with a roommate who had a Netflix problem... I saw him burning DVDs nightly and I warned him about the road he was headed down.
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Truth Bringer :D
04/13/09

In reply to A Better Look at HP's Compact MediaSmart Server LX195
Umm what's considered an obscene amount of storage? I'd like to know if I've hit the limit yet..
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IN THE FACE!
04/13/09

@Truth Bringer :D: I think obscene would generally be considered >2TB on a device that is solely meant for entertainment...

But I don't speak for the entire intarwebz, I guarantee that people will disagree with me...
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Scott Ingram
04/13/09

In reply to A Better Look at HP's Compact MediaSmart Server LX195
I am assuming the other connection there is for a ugly ass external power brick. No thanks. Unless of course that is not a power port and the thing runs on rainbows and puppies, in which case, sign me up.
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IN THE FACE!
04/13/09

@Scott Ingram: Watch out! Scott Ingram has an irrational hatred for external power supplies!

Ye be warned.
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OGC
04/13/09

In reply to A Better Look at HP's Compact MediaSmart Server LX195
Been thinking of picking up a popoplug.. maybe add this to it.
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IN THE FACE!
04/13/09

@OGC: I don't think your colon would enjoy this very much.
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