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HP MediaSmart Server Feature Guide

The heart of your digital life
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Introduction

Do you have multiple PCs or Macs in your house? Improve the way you experience digital media and protect your files with a home server! The new HP MediaSmart Servers offer more power, capacity and control. It’s the heart of your digital life. Now you can automatically back up and protect your digital memories, centralize your media and content for sharing with family and friends, and enjoy your digital media while at home or away.

Meet the Servers: Why a Home Server?

Your music, photos, videos and other media are part of your life - but they're scattered over multiple computers, disk drives, CDs, DVDs, and MP3 players...Macs and iPods® too. The HP MediaSmart Server centralizes all your files, from all your home computers, in one place so you can grab them anywhere you have an internet connection and share how you want.2
  • Easily and automatically backup and protect the content on your home PCs and Macs®.
  • Access your media from anywhere you use the Internet - across your home or across the world. You can even give your family and friends access.
  • The HP MediaSmart Server easily fits in your network supporting both wired and wireless PCs (via a wireless router) and requires a wired connection with broadband Internet* for remote access.

* Internet access required and sold separately

The all-in-one solution to manage your media

MediaSmart Server

Your family safe

  • Set it and forget it! Automatic management of many important activities (daily backup, power management, etc.) behind the scenes
  • Automatic backup for multiple PC and Mac computers1
  • Easy restoration for files—or an entire PC or Mac
  • Protect your digital memories from fire/flood/natural disaster… backup your server to an available internal or external hard disk drive to store offsite

Your family organizer

  • Share content to and from all PCs and Macs across your home network1
  • Automatically copy and centralize photos, music, and videos from your PCs to the server.
    The EX series also supports Macs (including iPhoto®, iTunes® and iMovie® libraries)1
  • Share photos with friends and family on photo sharing or social networking sites

Your family entertainment

  • Stream photos, music or videos to your home entertainment center, gaming consoles or any PC or Mac on your home network3,4
  • Share iTunes music libraries or playlists across all PCs and Macs1
  • Stream music and photos (as well as video for EX490/EX495) to any Internet-connected computer to enjoy your content away from your home network
1For Mac® OS X 10.5 or later; Windows PC required on your home network for server setup.
2Does not support streaming of CSS copy protected content.
3Digital media adapter required.
4Gaming consoles include Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3. TV requires a digital media receiver (UPnP).
5Requires wired connection to a router; remote features require a broadband Internet connection.
This system may require upgraded and/or separately purchased hardware and/or a DVD drive to install the Windows 7 software and take full advantage of Windows 7 functionality. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ for details.