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Computers, MP3 players, cameras, camcorders, cell phones—your digital world is growing fast. It’s time to protect all your media and important files with a home server. Here are 5 reasons why the HP MediaSmart Server should be at the heart of your digital life.
Get peace of mind by protecting your irreplaceable photos, music, videos and digital files with easy, automatic backups for the PCs and Macs
1 on your home network.
- Set it and forget it—just plug in the server, connect it to your router,2 load the software onto your computers and relax as the server automatically manages the backups for you.
- Easily restore files accidentally deleted from your computer thanks to the server’s robust protection of your important files and hard disk drives.
- Quickly and completely restore your computer image if you experience a computer system crash or hard drive failure.
- Add another layer of protection by saving files from the server to an external hard disk drive or an online backup service from Amazon S3.3
- Customize the frequency of backups by setting the HP MediaSmart Server to any backup schedule you choose.
- Expand your storage capacity as your library grows by easily installing additional hard disk drives—no tools needed.
The HP MediaSmart Server keeps all of your digital photos, music and videos organized and in one place for quick, easy access.
- Centralize your digital media for sharing with family and friends, and enjoy your digital media while at home or away.
- Quickly find what you need because the server automatically organizes Windows PC media files and libraries into folders.
- Remotely access all your files from any Internet-connected PC, anywhere in the world.4
Effortlessly manage and share all your digital photos.
- Easily publish your digital photos on popular photo-sharing sites including Snapfish, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums and Facebook3 using HP Photo Publisher.
- Share your photos and albums with family and friends using the server’s HP Photo Viewer.
The server can act as the jukebox for your entire digital music collection, so you and your family can easily listen to all your favorite tunes—at home or away.
- Centralize your music libraries and playlists and listen from any PC or Mac running iTunes on your home network.
- Conveniently access your entire music library over the Internet through remote media streaming.
- Automatically “pull” newly downloaded tunes to your centralized library, so when you switch computers, your new favorite song is right where you want it.
Get fast, easy access to all your digital videos and recorded TV shows from any PC or Mac on your home network.
- Effortlessly organize your video library thanks to HP Media Collector, which automatically copies all the digital videos on your network to a shared folder on the server.
- Stream your favorite music, videos and photos from your HP MediaSmart Server to PCs, Macs, Xbox 360 and Playstation3 gaming consoles, iPhone or iPod Touch6,7and even TVs on your home network.5
1For Mac® OS X 10.5 or later, using Apple’s Time Machine.
2Wireless router required; sold separately.
3Services are subject to change without notice and some services may not be available at time of product purchase. The available service providers may vary in your country/region.
4To run PC and Mac applications remotely, home computer must be running Microsoft Windows® Vista or higher, Windows® XP Home, Windows® XP Professional, Media Center Edition 2004 or later, Mac® OS X or Linux.
5Gaming consoles include Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION®3. TV requires a digital media receiver (UPnP).
6using the iStream app
7Copy protected files may not stream properly.
© Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Apple, Mac, Mac OS, Time Machine™ iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. PLAYSTATION®3 is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. Facebook® is a trademark of Facebook, Inc. Flickr™ is a trademark of Yahoo! Inc. Picasa™ is a trademark of Google, Inc. Snapfish™ is a trademark of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
