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I got in a HP MediaSmart Server EX470 last week. I got it to replace my old computer that was running the beta of Windows Home Server and finally retired my G400 MAX video card for good after using it for nearly 8 years 
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Anyways, Windows Home Server is awesome...for example, MS just added DIVX support for the Xbox360 and WHS works natively with the X360 and I can now stream all my videos from the server to my big screen TV over my wireless connection.
The biggest issue I have with WHS is that there isn't a 64-bit connector for it yet, and I'm running Vista 64Bit on my main machine. The only drawback is that its not backing up my files on server, but I'm using MS One Care, and I just have that pointed to the server to do backups till they sort this issue out. Otherwise I just use the remote desktop to do any administrative work on the server.
I already had to reinstall WHS on the Server (my fault, had my beta WHS and the HP server with the same computer name, when I had to still recover the data off the Beta box!) and you use a remote machine to do so over a wired network connection, since the MediaSmart Server doesn't have any CDROM drives.
It ran me about $550 bucks from buy.com, and part of the reason I went with getting a prebuild system instead of using my old computer was that OEM WHS retails for about $180 bucks alone and the old system was noisy and had a 450W PS in it, so I'm looking to save some $$$ when it comes to the electric bill
.Anyways, Windows Home Server is awesome...for example, MS just added DIVX support for the Xbox360 and WHS works natively with the X360 and I can now stream all my videos from the server to my big screen TV over my wireless connection.
The biggest issue I have with WHS is that there isn't a 64-bit connector for it yet, and I'm running Vista 64Bit on my main machine. The only drawback is that its not backing up my files on server, but I'm using MS One Care, and I just have that pointed to the server to do backups till they sort this issue out. Otherwise I just use the remote desktop to do any administrative work on the server.
I already had to reinstall WHS on the Server (my fault, had my beta WHS and the HP server with the same computer name, when I had to still recover the data off the Beta box!) and you use a remote machine to do so over a wired network connection, since the MediaSmart Server doesn't have any CDROM drives.
It ran me about $550 bucks from buy.com, and part of the reason I went with getting a prebuild system instead of using my old computer was that OEM WHS retails for about $180 bucks alone and the old system was noisy and had a 450W PS in it, so I'm looking to save some $$$ when it comes to the electric bill
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