The performance can easily be upped by upgrading the paltry 512Mb ram to 2Gb. Which I will do. Also in addition, HP uses some old SiS NIC driver which can also be easily upgraded to the latest version from the SiS site which also improves performance. U see, I am actually sharing my external 500GB hard disk via a NSLU2 device which is dog slow, but works stably. So either way, it's a great upgrade for me. Also, I didn't want RAID and the headaches associated with it, I actualy prefer the method MS uses. You just select the directory you want to be protected and it will (I think use shadow copies) on that directory and will automagically distribute it over several drives. One good thing for me is that I can also use my existing 500GB in the pool. So the version I got has 500GB and I have an external 500GB, so that gives me 1TB, I already have my eye on 2 more 750GB so that will give me 2.5TB of storage. I don't need all my directories redundant. I just need my pics, a couple of important documents, music and maybe some animes, the rest is well........non important.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Al Sent: Sat 4/19/2008 5:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Just ordered me one of these!!! "Naushad, Zulfiqar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Order is being shipped. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51e4zaGgjDL._SS400_.jpg http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/9a/65/4fb0431378a0fdfbe8e28110 Nice toy. :) Good read/write speed. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30135/75/1/9/ Quote: So would I buy it? All things considered, no, I wouldn't. While it is a nice looking product, with performance that places it near the top of our charts, its feature set falls far short of what you can get from many less-expensive products. In my case in particular, its once-a-day approach to backup doesn't meet my needs and I'm definitely not a fan of all the crap stuff I have to install on my system to even administrate the little beastie End quote. How long before someone hacks *nix onto it. :-) For fun: http://www.homeserverhacks.com/2007/12/hp-ex470ex475-mediasmart-server-easter.html
