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Question: Audiophile friendly Will this work for an audiophile who wants to store and play all his (classical) CDs in FLAC or raw lossless state on the server? If so, any suggestions for the best audio components to use to playback this data?
Document: I installed this server November last year and it has been running so great and so smooth. Yes, it's very easy to get it going. And yes, it really works. I installed 3 extra HD with 1TB (Seagate) to max out the drive bays and it recognized right away. We use this server to store massive collection of our professional photos, work projects. We've both Mac and PC in our shop and everyone can access it without any trouble at all. Highly recommend this product.
But the reliability, back up are very good. Everything else is up to the individual how he or she wants to use the server for. I have 3000 photos to manage so take a hint on that.
We have 2 laptops, 2 desktops, 2 networked printers,  and several other devices on the network. The hassle of my recent hard drive crash brought to light the need for a large data store and automated backup scheme. The HP EX475 I bought from AMazon was great. It came from their warehouse returns I believe and although the box was damaged, the server was perfect. They used an outside shipping carton as well as the factory box.
It won't magically allow you to play iTunes AACs, but any format that your media center could play, it will work. If you do have iTunes - it may add more value because you can have the system create a music database from ALL of the iTunes user's machines.
I bought my HP MSS EX475 in December, 2007, when they first came out. It has, of course, been superceeded by the EX485/7, the EX490/5 and the HP Data Vault models, all improvements over this base model. It is a user-friendly appliance for archiving backups to your home computers allowing the restoration of single files or entire disks very quickly. (Want to install a larger disk? You can be operational in a half hour!)
This product is excellent. I have it working with a 64-bit Vista computer, a 32-bit vista computer, and a computer running XP Pro. I am looking forward to the next update that will supposedly all it to work with Time Machine on the Mac. This is the best new Microsoft product I have seen in some time and HP's hardware is superb with plenty of room for expansion (and you can upgrade the RAM without voiding the warranty). Highly recommended.
Not sure what to do with this thing?Backup all the computers in your house each night without lifting a finger.Being a backup freak, that's reason number one to get this HP Home Server. I can't tell you how many times I've had to help people recover lost data or give them the bad news that years of photos were lost because they never backed them up. Backups only work if you do them. And this thing does them for you automatically.
I've had HP home server for about 6 months. All of the computers in my home automatically backup to the server every day. Yesterday, my daughter dropped my wife's laptop and the HD is now toast.My wife had important work data on the computer so was very anxious about the probability of recovery. Having been through this before with other backup devices, I wasn't terribly optimistic.However, I replaced the drive, plugged the laptop into the network and booted off the WHS recovery disk.
The certificate shows up as being a unknown certificate authority when you use the TZO.com DNS service that HP has contracted with. This problem can be handled with Firefox as an "exception" and with Safari and a "trusted site" but I have been unable to mute the warning with IE7, even installing the certificate in my trusted store fails to satisfy the certificate error problem.
Using the auto configure router just doesn't work. I suspected I would have issues but it was still annoying. Still, that only took a few minutes to overcome.My next issue is usernames. Because you can't join the MediaSmart server to a domain I can't use my username/password to log onto it. The instructions say to create the same username and password, but doesn't let you use the domain username (the username on the client keeps resolving to the domain).
Answer: I burn DVD's to mine and stream them across a wireless network to my TV, so I would imagine even the biggest audio stream would have no problem.