New MediaSmart box cuts price (and corners)
Monolithic in design and simple in principle, HP's latest MediaSmart home server, the LX195, runs Windows HS and has a single 640GB hard drive, gigabit ethernet, a 1.GHz Atom CPU and just 1GB of RAM. Though the specs are unimpressive, it's only $390 and has 4 USB ports--consider it intermediary between high-end local backup and low-end NAS.
HP launches a lower price Windows Home Server, the MediaSmart LX195 [CrunchGear]
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strider_mt2k
#1 – 9:11 AM April 30, 2009
I built a similar box, but used an MSI Wind barebones with 2GB of RAM, XP Pro and a 1.5TB HD.
I also put an existing 500GB HD in there.
Got it all from Newegg.
I think it was around that price all told, but I later sprung for a really fast 16GB CF card that now holds the operating system.
The HDs are just for storage.
The thing's been running 24/7 since just before Christmas no problems.
Rob Beschizza
#2 – 8:00 AM May 1, 2009
I rolled my own NAS, but found it sort of noisy, and was always worried about how much electricity it used.
rasz
#3 – 10:03 AM May 1, 2009
use old laptop with broken screen if you want silence and low electric bill