HP EX470 MediaSmart Server-299.00+ship

Old Hippie

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Nice deal.

Office Max has the HP EX470 MediaSmart Server for $299.00 plus shipping..

Looks like online only.

PS. Even though it's online only, it seems to be limited to certain geographical areas. To me, that doesn't make any sense but that's how it's coming down. Put your zip code in the store finder and it will let you know if it's avaliable to you.
 

erwos

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Wow - that's completely insane. Excellent price for anyone looking for a good, cheap WHS box.
 

imported_OrSin

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Nice box, might want to upgrade the chip if you do any encoding or use it stream to more then 1 source. But upgraded chips are dirt cheap.

Only issue is I'm not sure MS has fixed all the problems with Home server and Software like bit torrent. And thing that writes to the hard drive in streams some times could cause issue. Its been a while since I looked up the problem, but that made me put off getting one last year.
 

erwos

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Originally posted by: OrSin
Nice box, might want to upgrade the chip if you do any encoding or use it stream to more then 1 source. But upgraded chips are dirt cheap.

Yeah, more RAM is the usual improvement to make to it. IIRC, there were some potential issues with voiding your warranty, although I think I heard HP was looking the other way about it.

Only issue is I'm not sure MS has fixed all the problems with Home server and Software like bit torrent. And thing that writes to the hard drive in streams some times could cause issue. Its been a while since I looked up the problem, but that made me put off getting one last year.

The corruption issue has been fixed for a few months now.
 

WT

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Power Pack 1 fixed the corruption issue, but that would ONLY apply if you were using multiple drives. Since this unit only ships with 1 drive, you are never going to be affected by any drive corruption issue. I bought mine last year when OfficeMax was running a promo to get a second 500gb HD with the server. I waited until the Power Pack came out, then added it to the WHS.

Great deal on a great, trouble-free server that makes full system imaging a snap. Its already restored my RAID0 array twice.
 

Aarondeep

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In for one, great deal OP. Now I got a place for all those spare drives I have lying around.