Those that know me know that I take a lot of pictures and videos. When I say a lot.. I say that lightly. I take a LOT! I have backed them up on DVD’s, CD’s, flash drives, external hard drives – you name it, I have tried it. I have thought about getting a server to host my pictures, videos, music and even my website, but the prices I have seen kind of scared me. Well, not only that, but the set up didn’t appeal to me either. I recently came across a server from HP that I am very excited about; not only on the price affordability aspect, but the space is wowza amazing! Yes, I said it – wowza.
Do you have a lot of pictures of your loved ones? How about videos? Music for your MP3? I can go on and on and on! How would you like to be able to save these things from your house, or while on the go?Think of all the photos and songs you’ve collected over the years –what if your hard drive crashed and you lost all of it? The MediaSmart Server LX195 acts as a digital safe, offering storage and protection for all your digital treasures including photos, songs and videos.
The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 automatically backs up, stores and accesses content from all Macs and PCs on your home network and lets Dad remotely stream music and photos to his computer, keeping him connected to his digital media no matter where in the world he may be. What? From all computer PC’s and Mac’s? What? I have done some research on the HP MediaSmart Server LX195 and I am utterly giddy (yes, I said it) about this machine! I love technology and to know that a piece of technology can actually help?
Help your family get control of your digital life with the affordable, easy-to-use MediaSmart Server LX195. It lets you automatically back up and protect digital photos, as well as centralize digital media and content so it’s easy to share. And you’ll enjoy your media whether you’re at home or away. What? Home or away? Yes! You can back up what you are doing. What I LOVE about the HP MediaSmart Server LX195 is that you are able to be away from your home and still be able to back up things via the internet to your server. What a HUGE sigh of relief for me!
Automatic backup
- Automatically manage daily backup, virus protection, media collection, and power management, all behind the scenes
- Automatically back up multiple computers, whether running Windows (via Microsoft Windows Home Server Backup) or Mac (via Apple Time Machine)1
- Store up to 168,000 photos, 147,000 songs or 405 hours of video2
- Get additional protection by backing up your server to an on-line back-up service like Amazon S33
Designed for digital media
- Access your media4 anywhere with an Internet-connected computer
- Stream music and photos to any computer, while you’re at home or away
- Stream to your stereos and TVs through a gaming console like the Xbox 360 or PlayStation35
- Publish photos to photo-sharing and social networking Web sites—Snapfish, Flickr, Picasa, and even Facebook6—via any Internet-connected computer, or share directly from your server
- Share music libraries for play throughout your home
Easy setup, scheduling, and support
- Set up fast: just plug it in, connect it to your wireless router (sold separately), and load the software on your PCs and Macs1
- Schedule the server to copy and centralize Windows PC media files and libraries (including iTunes and playlists)
- Expand your capacity by adding external hard drives7 via four USB ports on the back
- Warranty and support: one-year limited; get help toll-free, 24 x 7, or via e-mail in as little time as an hour
Here are some technical specs for this bad boy:
General Features
Operating system
- Microsoft Windows Home Server
Processor
- Intel 1.6 GHZ Atom Processor 230
Memory
- 1GB DDR2 DRAM
Included drive capacity LX195 (1 X 640 GB) SATA 7200 RPM
Drive bays 1 drive
Ports (4) USB 2.0 ports
Expandability Limited only by drive sizes – Assuming 1 TB drives, total capacity (internal and external) = 5 TB
Dimensions: 4″ x 8″ x 8″
Power consumption – 1 Drive sleep 3.5 W
Power consumption – 1 Drive active 28 W
Noise level Whisper Quiet (25 degrees C < 25 dba at one meter)
I will have a video review for the HP MediaSmart Server LX195 coming up soon. I want to show you the set up process and all of the features, so be sure to check back for that detailed review!
In the meantime, how would you like to win a HP MediaSmart Server LX195 for dad for Father’s Day?
What you win
- HP MediaSmart Server LX195 valued at $399.99
How to enter
- Post to me how the HP MediaSmart Server LX195 can help you. What details attract you and how can this help dad and you in your everyday life?
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- ONE (1) winner will receive a HP MediaSmart Server LX195 valued at $399.99
- Winner will be chosen at Random and backed up by post content.
- Winner will be contacted via Email. If no response in 48 hours, another winner will be drawn
- Winner must not have won anything in the last 30 days on Mommy Goggles
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- US & Canada entries only
- Contest ends on June 24, 2009 at 11:59 pm Central Time
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This would come in handy to store the hundreds of pictures I take every day!
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I have tons of pics, so this would be perfect to back those up.
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The 640 GB drive attracts me. This can help in my everyday life by making it easy to back up my data.
I have lost everything including my digital pictures when my computer died. It is quite painful to say the least. We have business documents that need to be backed up also. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this fun giveaway!
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I really need it to store my pictures.
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I love that it can store up to 168,000 photos, 147,000 songs or 405 hours of video! This would be very helpful b/c we would be able to save tons of photos and videos that we would never want to lose. I’ve had my hard drive crash before and lost a lot of precious photos…I certainly never want that to happen again.
This would help us so much! My husband loves to take pictures and the photo storage would be great for us. Also, having the data backup would be a huge benefit as well.
This would help make my husband’s life easier with work.. Please enter me
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It can help me by making my Hubby Happy — he is attracted to the fact that he can manage daily backups he’s paranoid about losing all his digital information – he would use it to back up the data on all three of our pcs especially the 10 years of digital pictures we have!
This would help my husband work from home instead of staying at the office for an excessive amount of hours without any overtime.
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My Dad would like this a lot. He is the so called computer wizard of the family and it would allow him to consolidate everything in one place and duplicate copies of files.
Greatest thing about this is the automatic backups
I like that this product is from HP. It is a brand that I am familiar with and trust. I like that this product can store my digital pictures and videos. This could help me preserve and organize my memories. I would be so sad if I lost any of my pictures or videos. This could help my dad because he has lots of pictures that need to be archived in a safe way.
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We’re trying to get rid of all our CDs. This would be great as a jukebox of sorts. Thanks!
The LX195 is able to back up all of the computers in your home and centrally stores music, photos and more.
Oh my what a great orgnaizational tool. I need this to back up my videos and pictures
This would be a great gift for my brother. He’s into photography and takes loads of photos. The great storage space would be the best feature he’d love.
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This would make it so easy for us to store our pictures, movies and music. We are so heavy into taking pictures of our kids and our surroundings and backing up our music and movies. This would be a godsend to us.
We need this.
Boy, I worry about not having everything backed up in a central place. This would solve my worries ! jtrophy at aol. com
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my brother is a dad to me and loves computer gadgets , i would love to give this to him..
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My computer is on its last leg. When I turn it off, It is very difficult to turn it back on. I need to backup my pictures.
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I love that this automagically backs up your photos and data. I try to remember to save my pics to my portable flash drive, but I rarely do. My husband would love this b/c he’s always bugging me to save our pictures.
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oh man this would be awesome i have so much stuff on my computer that id love to back up.im afraid one of these days im going to lose it all. i love that you can store Store up to 168,000 photos, 147,000 songs or 405 hours of video2
I’d love to use this to stream my pictures and songs! thanks
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I like the fact that it will automatically back up and protect digital photos, as well as centralize digital media and content so it’s easy to share. I also will have access to my media anywhere I go. This will definitely simplify our lives.
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Having it back everything up regularly and automatically would be incredibly helpful. I don’t take the time to do that often enough and the peace of mind for the whole family would be wonderful.
This is exactly what our house needs. We have 4 computers total and pictures, songs, and videos on all of them. Having 1 storage place that would be accessible by all of the computers (2 desktops and 2 laptops) would make for more storage space on all of those PCs and make it so that nobody would ever have to search for a favorite song again! What a fantastic device this is. I don’t know if it can, but if this dealybob could also integrate as extra centralized storage for our DVR too, I’d but at least 1 of them right now! Here’s hoping that I win one reguardless — Thanks to Mommy Goggles and HP for the great contest and fantabulous prize!
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This would help all of us and my computer is so full of pictures and videos, this would be great!
I could use this to backup my photos and videos.
The automatic backup capability will be especially good for me, I always forget!
I could really use this to organize and back up my pictures
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So my Dad is obsessed with backing up his computer, but has never really found a great way to do this. He’s bought a few external hard drives but then can’t always figure out the software to do the backups. He would love that the HP media server can automatically backup his computer for him! Personally, I love the idea of being able to access your pictures from any computer with internet access – no more transfering to usb sticks and what not to bring to a friend’s house!
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My husband would literally be doing the happy dance if I surprised him with this amazing HP MediaSmart Server LX195. He has been wanting to organize all of our image, video and music files as well as make sure all of our files are properly backed up so this would help me to achieve those goals so quickly, easily and effectively and would help him tremendously! What attracts me to this HP MediaSmart Server LX195 is that it automatically backs up, stores and accesses content from all Macs and PCs on our home network and will allow us to remotely stream music and photos from our computers, keeping us connected to our digital media no matter where we are. This will truly help Dad and the entire family in our everyday life because we will be able to save all of our files no matter where we are and it can be scheduled so even when we are away we are protecting our files. This will provide us with such peace of mind in knowing that our precious image and video files are safe. Last summer when the hard drive on our main computer died we lost so many of our beloved image and video files because we had not properly backed them up on a regular basis. It was heart breaking and a hard lesson to learn. Having this HP MediaSmart Server will make our life easier because we won’t have to worry about that ever happening again to us. This server will also make it much easier for us to share all of our files whenever we want to! I could go on and on about all the ways it will help us and make our life easier! Thanks so much for the chance to enter.
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OHHH we could really use this!! My hubby is a realtor and does virtual tours on his properties. This would be great to store his tours. Plus I have a ton of pictures that I would be so upset if I lost.
WoW… what a great prize and to think that I’ve been looking into getting an external hard drive… for what reason? We love to take pictures and videos too and have tons of pictures on the hard drive. I would hate for our computer to crash and lose everything and we’re running out of space.
I love two things about this server… 1Gig is not bad but to think it can expand to 5 TB, that is fantastic, no more worries about running out of space for sure.
I also like that it’s superquiet. I work in a testing lab and with multiple servers, it’s always so loud but to have something at home that is fairly quiet and is so powerful would be wonderful.
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The features of the HP MediaServer that appeal most to me are the Intel processor (a must!), the 1 GB storage capacity (and expandability), and, most of all, the automatic backup capability — because my family, and my dad in particular, has a huge collection of family photos, music files, and personal documents between us, most of which are on different drives or discs, it would be terrific to have a media server to centralize our storage for organization and easier access and to keep our files safe and secure. It would give my dad in particular peace of mind because he’s the one who has the largest digital music, photo, and film collection, and the one who’s always expressing worry about backing up his files and ours! Plus, having all of our collections in a central location will help us share and enjoy each other’s media much more. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
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this would be so useful! i have thousands of photos on my hard drive and i have no back-up of them. i really like the the feature of being able to back up via the internet!
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I love that this can store so much media. I also love that it runs so quietly. My dad works in telecommunications so this would be perfect for him. Everything he does is on computers.
Dad and I like the Store up to 168,000 photos, 147,000 songs or 405 hours of video feature and it would help us because he has a brother in Germany, and my mom is 600 miles away, and we keep in touch by sending pictures ALOT. We lost alot of pictures a few years back when our computer crashed.
I like that it ■Automatically backs up multiple computers. My dad has 2 and needs the back up
I have media on different computers, especially mp3s and digital photos. Having them centralized (and backed up) would make it so convenient to access and organize them. would love to win this. thanks
This would be so great to keep everything well organized and free up so much space.
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This would make my life easier because it would make my husband happy. If he’s happy, I am happy!
I would love to store photos of my girlfriend and I.
We have tons of pictures from the digital cameras. My older son has music files and game files, while my younger son has autism-related resource files and educational games files. My husband tells me that this device works quite well as a backup device, in case of a hard-drive failure on one of the several household PCs — knock on wood it’s never really needed, but all it would take is for one of the battery-backup UPCs to glitch and spike and there we’d be, up a tree and untold memories lost… Roll those dice, Random.com!!
(BTW — I almost had to jump through hoops to get your site to load past about comment#45 or so, to give me access to this entry form — ever heard of a config problem on my end causing that??)
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My husband has been talking about getting a server, so he woudl be just thrilled with this. He has so much stuff saved on the PCs that really needs to get backed up!
My husband and I both do a lot of graphic design. We take a lot of digital photos. We have a lot of family photos that DH has scanned and restored. We’re also about to get a Flip Mino, so we’ll need more storage space for the video. Our own server would be the answer to the digital storage dilemma!
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This would help because we have many computers in our house. We would be able to back everything up to one centralized location. We would be able to stream movies and music. My husband would really love this.It would help him with different programs that he uses for work. He has flash drives all over the place. Thanks for the chance.
I like the processor and the fact that it’s quiet. If I won it, I’d keep it since dad is deceased.
I really need help with backing things up so this would be a big help – my dad would love that you can use this for multiple computers!
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I love the massive storage on this. I have tons of home videos as well as pictures and I would love to know they are safe
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With a home office, the back up server would be a life saver for both our personal and professional electronic life.
This would be great for my hubby because he loves making silly videos. We have hundreds!
I am out of town a lot – NASCAR racing. The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 will help me save all my tv shows in a centralized location so I can watch them when I get back!
This would be great to have for backup – I have lots of files scattered out over 2 laptops and a desktop that need backing up!
Ackk! Looks like my original post got lost in cyberspace! I was saying that I recently bought a Sony PRS-505 ebook reader and I’ve spent the last three weeks buying new ebooks and downloading free ebooks and nearly crashed my hard drive with all the wonderful books just waiting to be read! The thought of losing all these just makes me sick. So I really need not only extra storage space but a backup plan and system as well. Sounds like just what I need!
I like that it is simple and easy to set up and use. We have a lot of pictures that this can help with.
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Wow!! Ok, here’s the thing… I recently broke down and bought myself an ebook reader. Yep, I bought the Sony PRS-505. I LOVE it!! I love it so much I went on a downloading binge at gutenburg and almost crashed my hard drive!! But delete these wonderful old books I just spent weeks downloading? No way! I need extra storage space, and I need to know that they are backed up safely if I should want them again or – heaven forbid! – a major computer crash occurs. I’ve also purchased ebooks for this reader and that’s too much money to risk losing. Count me in for this giveaway!
my father and i run a small website this would help us with extra space we need
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This would help my husband keep our family videos and photos organized and available for us.
This would be perfect to store all our photos and those fat files he saves.
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This would be excellent for my husband as he works from home and has his own business. It would make life easier for him.
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I love that the set-up is so easy. With crazy kids running around the house my husband doesn’t have a ton of time to read instruction booklets!
This would really help my husband keep all my daughter’s videos and photos in a centralized location
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This would help protect all of his homemade video edits and photos! Also, our household has so much music spread out all over the place, this would make consolidating and protecting it so much easier. Awesome!
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The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 can help me first by creating a lot more free space on my computer that is currently allocated to storing photos, videos and music. The details that immediately caught my interest were the sizeable (and expandable) storage capacity and the automatic backup. And it helps Dad and me by storing all our digital materials in one area instead of playing hide-n-seek elsewhere in our main computer’s maze of programs and files.
this is so cool… i could really use this for the pix and videos of my family, also my movies online, and my music storage… that alone would help me so much and keep all the info safe.
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I’ve got about 2000 (no joke!), maybe more, DVD-R’s full of information around my home. They are piled everywhere, it’s a mess. I’d organize and put the information up in here! That’s how it’d help me.
Wonderful giveaway! My husband has tons of pictures this would be a grand gift for him.
It would help free up space on my desktop.There are five people taking pictures,buying music files.ect. and this would help dad so he can take all the pictures he pleases and my computer will run faster.
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I have several computers and websites to go along with them. This would give me a central place to put everything and clean up some of my computers
I currently have media scattered across shares on 4 different PCs. Navigating it all is a nightmare. It would be nice to have a single point for all of our media as well as a backup solution for those PCs. We have a 2 1/2 month old daughter, so I’m starting to collect lots of kids movies now for when she does get ready to watch them. Love the site, by the way!
I can stream video and other media to my XBOX360 and TVs throughout the house by using media extender. I can also stream video from the internet such as from youtube and Hulu. The media server will allow me to store not only photos but will backup by computers and play games as well. It is a great multipurpose server. I hope I win.
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Currently, our media collection is a mess…no organization really at all. I love that the HP MediaSmart Server LX195 backs up multiple computers and I like the photo and music sharing capabilities.
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This would be fabulous to backup all of our computers and help my hubby to be less stressed about mishaps.
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This looks like an amazing media server. I’d use this to back up our various computers and publish photos/videos to the web.