What to get dad? How about the HP MediaSmart Server LX195?

untitled1Those 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?

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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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Details

  • 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
  • For more specifics on how winners are drawn, click here
  • Winners are posted here for reference
  • US & Canada entries only
  • Contest ends on June 24, 2009 at 11:59 pm Central Time
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After working professionally in computer information technology, as well as prior work in the telecommunications industry, Tanya Gordon relocated to southwest Iowa in conjunction with her husband’s job. Mommy Goggles launched over 5 years ago, rising to prominence as a national Mom Blogger and highly sought after by brands to work closely with them on their reach to Mom consumers. In addition, Tanya happily parents two wondrous children who despite best efforts still have been known to engage in ongoing sibling squabbles: Tucker, 6, and Kambry, 3 1/2.You can read more about Tanya here.

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    Dan D says:

    This would help with data backup and photo & movie storage. It would help by giving me the peace of mind that our family memories will be preserved.

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    Erma says:

    The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 would simplify my life.

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    Aisling says:

    Like most moms/grandmothers, I have a ton of photos that I’d love to be able to secure in one spot. My daughter has photos of her kids that I could add to the collection and my son has a Mac with more photos. It sounds like we could pull everything together on this HP MediaSmart Server. That would be wonderful!

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    Christie says:

    The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 would help me to safeguard all my family pics, even the very old ones of ancestors.

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    Susan Ledet says:

    I subscribe.

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    Susan Ledet says:

    This would make our life much easier and keep all of our photos and music safe. I like how easy it is to use and that you can use it anywhere.
    Thanks for the great giveaway.

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    Derk Thomas says:

    Backups would be done, and the extra space would be great.

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    Diane Baum says:

    This would definately help my husband clean up

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    Ruby says:

    This would help me by organizing all my media. I have lots of music and pictures and I am so afraid of losing them cuz you never know with computers… *knock on wood* I like that you can access your files even when you’re not at home. This would help by making life easier…my computer is so slow, i really need this.

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    Anthony Tobin says:

    this will help to store all the pictures and mp3s that we have.
    we have lots and lots of music to store
    this would be perfect
    thanks for you help

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    I have your button

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    To be able to acess my web file folers and pics from any internet computer would be fantastic. My son in college leaves his backup source at home all the time this would be the answer!

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    Jeanine B says:

    My entire family would love this! We have 3 computers that the four of us share and it would be wonderful to be able to back them up and be able to count on the backup. Plus we share a lot of photos and it would be great to have a central database we could all access easily.

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    Emily Z says:

    I subscribe!

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    Emily Z says:

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    Emily Z says:

    This would make my life way easier because I can keep all my pictures backed up on this instead of keeping them on my pc hoping nothing happens to it.

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    Trish Dowling says:

    this would really help with backing up the large families amount of games, photos and downloads. currently we have 2 computers, with full memory. but we got 2 minis for our twins going into high school. so this will help them in school!! this will help the family run smooth, which helps their dad!! sanity!!

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    chris swan says:

    WOW all our files in one place boy that would be heaven.

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    Jay F. says:

    I subscribed to your updates via email.

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    Jay F. says:

    I love that you can access this device across the internet. I would love to be able to store my Dad’s (and my sister’s) digital photos. They’d get an off-site storage area and I’d get to see the pictures. Great deal.

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    Dan Riley says:

    This would be great! With everyone in our family finally having a computer, this would make it easy to share files and photos!!

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    Lisa L says:

    Great gift for my bro the tech wizard. He’d have a blast using this for all the online things he does. He has a lot of music and photos and is setting up his computer to show movies on the tv too.

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    Jaque says:

    The feature that I think would be the most important is the ability to stream music and photos to any computer, while you’re at home or away! The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 is definitely a product I would like to own.

    Thank you. :-)

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    Amanda says:

    I subscribe to your newsletter woot

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    Amanda says:

    I have your button

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    Amanda says:

    Wow, this sounds exactly what I need for my pics, videos, site, um everything! I do so much online and I am always so scared of loosing everything.

    This is a wonderful giveaway!

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    David Barnett says:

    Whew! That was hard work.I finally figured out how to add your button to my site.It took me several days.Don’t tell anyone how slow i am. LOL
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    Tom McKimm says:

    I download lots of shows, but I can’t access them from any of my computers. The Server would let me watch them anywhere I want.

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    Lois Shores says:

    I subscribe to your newsletter

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    Gabriel J. says:

    We would use the HP MediaSmart Server LX195 in our home office to deal with some our paperowrk. We do not have one now and it would make our lives easier.

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    SavingDiva says:

    It would save the digital family pictures that are currently not backed up (horrible, I know). It would also provide a location to save the e-mails going back and forth with family we recently located in Europe.

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    Robin says:

    This is an awesome way for dad to backup his photos and also backup his other media files

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    Kiley Smith says:

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    Kiley Smith says:

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    Kiley Smith says:

    My husband and I take LOTS of pictures and both of us have lots of documents on our computer this would help us to backup all of our important pictures and files! I love that it is very quiet and not bulky!

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    susan says:

    I’m a subscriber.

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    susan says:

    Anyone who has ever had a computer completely die on them (like we did) knows the value of a good backup. This would have saved all of my hubby’s picture of our little one as well as video too. I love that it does an automatic backup so you’ll never forget to do it. We use our computer for everything and this would be a big sigh of relief to have!

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    Linda F says:

    Right now, we don’t have any way to back up our digital photos. This would certainly help with that. I like the automatic backup. This would enable us to share music libraries.

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    Teresa says:

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    Teresa says:

    The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 can help me by regaining valuable disk space on my computer. What attracts me is it Stores up to 168,000 photos! (wow!) This will help my dad and I keep better organized in our everyday life.

    :) Thank you for the wonderful giveaway! :)

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    Betty C says:

    We have so much media saved in various formats, some on older PC’s, some on DVD, some on CD, even some saved in memory cards in the cameras and camcorders. It would be wonderful to have it all in one place so we can go to it whenever we want.

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    Ravzie says:

    Our digital pictures are all over the place. We could really use this to organize and back up our shots.

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    amy p says:

    I have your main button.

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    amy p says:

    I subscribe.

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    amy p says:

    I am the most unorganized person. I love taking photos. especially of my daughter so it would be great to get organized. my computer does not have much space left either.

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    Deci Worland says:

    I have your button.

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    Deci Worland says:

    we have two computers and about a million photos, I also do genealogy. We are getting backed up.

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    Faythe says:

    I subscribe to your updates via email.

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    Faythe says:

    How The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 would help me & dad???
    Dad has been a photofanatic forever! He loves to take landscapes, nature ( animals, flowers, ect.) He has rolls & rolls of pics I need to scan & backup for us! over 35 years worth just from when we wed! that is not to count to digital animal that came to live here too! Dad loves to snap away… but guess who gets the archival job???? Mom! I have a little digital as well as rolls of film pics that need to be saved… Mine are mostly of people, like our kids growing up, family reunions , grandkids… those are most important to me, but his are too….. I could have everything in one location & safe, and store the CDs I have burned already some place else! And maybe even have some room on my pc for NEW pics ( esp of grandkids!!)
    So I would love to win this great piece of technology for dad & me ;-)
    (fingers tightly crossed)

    ThanX! Grammymouse aka Faythe

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    David Barnett says:

    I subscribed. barnett1949@gmail.com

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    David Barnett says:

    I would use this baby to put all my family pictures on and i would allow my wife to use it to blog.I would help a lot.It has to be faster than the antique that i am using.

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    Kate says:

    I subscribe

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    Kate says:

    I don’t even want to talk about my photo problem. I have photos on my computer, on my phone, on my husband’s computer, on my mom’s computer and on various memory cards lying around. That says nothing about my music problem. My husband and I are fighting over space on his hard drive for all of our music. We are both avid music fans and like about 1 of the same artists. We have major memory issues. This could bring an end of the memory wars.

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    Dree says:

    I subscribe.

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    Dree says:

    I scanned all of my grandmother’s old pictures into my computer as well as all my own. This would be a great way to protect and organize them.

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    Robyn Wright says:

    This would be great for my son to give to his dad for Father’s Day! Hubby has really begun embracing his computer finally and he saves lots of photos and now he is using it to record his guitar and other music and he needs much more space and be able to share it between multiple computers in the house. This would be great!

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    Doug Pfaff says:

    I am a Dad and I could use a WHS to back up my pictures, video and music. I think this is the the best WHS because its low power usage.

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    Daniel M says:

    my pics and vids are all over the place, this would greatly help keeping tabs on what i have and to organize them

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    Lois Shores says:

    I like that it can do automatic backups. It would give peace of mind to me

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    Amy Brewer says:

    Automatically manage daily backup, virus protection, media collection, and power management, all behind the scenes. My husband and I need something for lots of pics and things. the storage on this is awesome. Thanks for the chance.

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    julieh says:

    I LOVE that you can backup data via the internet even when you are away from home. That would give us huge peace of mind, as we travel lot!

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    Rachel says:

    I blogged about your contest.

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    Rachel says:

    I have your button on my blog

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    Rachel says:

    I am a subscriber

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    Rachel says:

    I can’t believe how nice this sounds! I’m always trying to find a way to back up pictures and videos and my husband is always talking of getting something like this. To be able to access this while away from home and still have a place to store everything would be wonderful. My hubby would think that he’d died and gone to heaven if he had something like this and since it can back up multiple computers we don’t have to worry about his school laptop or our desktop!

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    Charlie Purvis says:

    I need it, I want it. An awesome and essential addition to my in-home network.

    Thanks

    Charlie

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    Rebecca says:

    This would truly help dad to be much more organized! The ability to stream video through the house and not take so long looking for the lost dvd that everyone falls asleep before the movie begins lol! Not to mention all the thousands of family photos that we could finally backup. I know backing up the pics would sure make me breathe easier! Thanks so much for the chance to win such a wonderful gift for dad. Happy Fathers Day everyone!

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    Alex says:

    This would be a nice change for me as I’m stuck with a oooold comp that doesn’t have any space left to store any pics, movies or any kind of file !!!

    Also using it for internet or any other thing is a big problem as it has the smallest memory….

    So this new comp could bring me into 2009 :) !!!

    Thanks.

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    Steve Scott says:

    My wife has a bookkeeping business and she really needs to back up her clients data.

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    Jeff says:

    I would like to use it to store my media. Storing family pictures for dad on it.

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    joe gersh says:

    I like that it will back up multiple computers-my dad could use that

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    Stefanie Hartman says:

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    Stefanie Hartman says:

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    Stefanie Hartman says:

    This will help the Dad here, my hubby, and myself by protecting our pictures of our precious children and our life together. I so worry about the digitals on the computer. We need a system – and this is it. Blessings.

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    Max says:

    This would simplify the backup process

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    Radmila S says:

    It’s looks very stylish and has small dimensions. It can help any dad to manage digital family jewels like photos, music, videos and favorites. Daily backups can eliminate a lot of hassle and save time that can be spent on better things.

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    Bob says:

    Cool site – I need a home server!

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    Crista says:

    OMG! I’m like 100% Mac, but this looks fabulous! (Shhh! Don’t tell I’m cheating on them!) Whew! Ok, wireless devices, whatever they are, help me SO much in my life as a mommy, a business owner ( http://www.bellaziza.com ) and a blogger ( http://www.BellazizasFavorites.com ). I have all HP printers and really do like them. My favorite is my Bluetooth printer (Model #? Nawww, don’t remember!) It would be really nice to be able to store all of my media wirelessly and have the automatic backups.

    Ooh la la! Would LOVE to win!!!

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    Brittany Kenehan says:

    Oh i forgot it can hlp my dad and my baby’s daddy to upload pictures of my 4 month old and do research and the slim design takes up less space and make it look alot better ad newer and it add more style to your dsk because it’s so good looking.

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    Brittany Kenehan says:

    That HP computer can help me because i don’t have a computer i use a nieghbours and I’m only 16 with a 4 month old daughter it’s good to do research and I need to do schooling and i decided if i can get a computer i can stay home with y daughter and do schooling over the internet.I subscribe and have a google account.

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    Kimberly Pruitt says:

    I would centralize all of my files so everything would be organized. My Father visits my house, jumps on my computer and wants to pull his hair out because he can’t find pictures etc! This would definitely help out!

    Thank you!

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    arlen says:

    This would allow my dad to be able to easily back up his computer. His computer is a big part of his life and he seems to have problems with it frequently. Knowing the data is save and restorable would put his and my mind at ease.

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    Britani says:

    I would love to win this, I have so many pics of my little girl, and she is only 1!! And another one on the way, so there will be plenty more to come, and hopefully video soon as well. This would be wonderful to keep it all in one place so I always know where to find it!!

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    kathy says:

    My dad has so many photos that he just stores on his memory card in his camera! This would be great to back those up as well as any important documents he has.

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    Carrie Miyake says:

    I am a subscriber

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    Carrie Miyake says:

    THe HP Smartserver would be great for me and my husband. He is always telling me to back up my computer and save my photos and music but I never remember to do it. In November my entire computer crashed and I lost everything on there. You would think I learned my lesson but I have not backed up in months. All the pictures from the first 5 month of my daughter’s life are sitting on my computer (not backed up) and I would be crushed if I lost it all. Automatic back up would be great. Now that I think about it, I am going to back up my photos as soon as I get home.

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    I would be so very much less neurotic if I had this HP MediaSmart Server LX195. I have about five old computers scattered through my home collecting dust. No longer in use. Why are they here? My kids childhoods, in digital pix, are on these now defunct units. Just waiting to be removed, so we can recycle. Seriously I lay awake at night worrying about this.

    Furthermore my home is wired for sound, but we have no way to stream our music collection. So I’d be carefree, jumping on the bed, dancing in the kitchen… you get the picture!

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    Jennifer C. says:

    This would be THE ultimate gift to give my husband for father’s day. He works in IT and has a server built in our basement but it is out of leftover pieces he’s collected from former customers that said he could have it. He says he doesn’t know how long it will last so I’d love it if he won a new one.

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    traceyclark says:

    oooooo. ooooooo. ooooooo. the hubs and i were just talking about these!!! between me and my photos and him and his music, we are the perfect candidates! ; )

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    Denise says:

    My husband is the computer smart one in the family, so I know he’d love this to expand on his capabilities.

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    Erin Walsh says:

    Subscriber

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    Erin Walsh says:

    I absolutely love the four usb ports, we can never seem to have enough. As far as being useful, with three people and four computers in our household, a place to store our music , pictures and important files that we can all use and access even though we have a mix of pc’s and one Apple is incredible.

    Thanks for the chance to win!

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    patricia says:

    My husband would love to have this because of the photo storage and more. My husband loves to draw and paint and he is always taking pictures to draw inspiration from.

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    Amir says:

    My favorite feature is that this can Stream music and photos to any computer, while you’re at home or away.

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    jan koontz says:

    i would love to win this prize, thank you

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    dianne says:

    I love that it’s easy to set up and that it stores up to 168,000.

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    James Jenkins says:

    wow, great contest

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    Mary Casper says:

    thursday morning entry thanks

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    Max Lee says:

    Wow, this HP MediaSmart Server LX195 is going to be a perfect gift for my father’s day!

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    Sonya says:

    I have your button on my blog!

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    Sonya says:

    I’m an RSS subscriber!

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    Sonya says:

    I love that it automatically manages daily backup, virus protection, media collection, and power management, all behind the scenes!

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    Megan B. says:

    This is fantastic because we have so much data thats backed up to different external hard drives – my husband has a Mac and I have a Dell so this is really a fantastic piece of technology that will help us both! Thank you so much!

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    Jess says:

    This would be amazing to win! I love that it backs up everything automatically so you don’t have to worry about when the last time you backed up manually was, and that it’s so quiet and doesn’t use a lot of power consumption. Thanks for the great contest!

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    Caity says:

    I am going to blog about this giveaway at giveawaygirl.blogspot.com

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    Caity says:

    I have your button!

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    Caity says:

    Oh my! I cannot even begin to tell you how much this would help us! My husband is starting a business and our computer is soooooooo slow! We desperately need something new!

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    Amir says:

    I work from home alot and late too- I love that this is quiet. I’ll store all the family photos and keep everything organzised. This would be fantastic!

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    Janice Wright says:

    This is an excellent idea. All of our stuff backed up. I won’t have to worry about losing everything!

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    JIM says:

    this would allow me to stream music to all my kids ipods and be great!

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    Tracy Greenwood says:

    The automatic backup would be wonderful! My parent’s computer is ancient, so a server for them would eliminate the ‘gremlins’ that they currently have.

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    Carol Lawrence says:

    E-mail subscriber.

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    Carol Lawrence says:

    You can automatically manage daily backup, virus protection, media collection, and power management. And you can view the pictures from other compters.

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    Shelly T. says:

    subscriber

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    Shelly T. says:

    This would be the perfect gift for my husband. He does photography on the side and literally has thousands of photos. I would love to be able to win this for him and his birthday is on June 25th, perfect timing.

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    Sarah Lehan says:

    The ease of back ups is what I like best. Thanks for the contest.

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    Letessha W. says:

    I have your button.

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    Letessha W. says:

    I subscribe.

    letessha@yahoo.com

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    Letessha W. says:

    The HP MediaSmart Server LX195 can help me and my bf to store my hundreds of photos together in a safe place. I currently do not have any kind of backup system so this will help us dramatically.

    letessha@yahoo.com

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    hallie says:

    My dad is a self taught computer genious! He repairs computer as a hobbie! I think this would be perfect for him when hes out repairing at ssomeones house and needs to pull a file from his server! He also keeps tons of movies and music on his computer!

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    ktanjatk says:

    subscriber

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    ktanjatk says:

    Automatic backup of multiple computers has to be the main “attraction” for us!
    We have 2 desktops, 3 laptops and a netbook, some are Macs, some are PCs!
    It gets confusing sometimes :) This would solve the problem and it would be a huge time saver too!

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    hazel hunt says:

    nice!

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    Melissa O. says:

    I would love to have this for the gazillions of pictures on my computer! I would be lost if something happened to them! I love that I wouldn’t have to remember to backup everything or worry that I will forget because it does everything for you! My husband would love this and he would be the one setting it all up.

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    Sean C. says:

    It’s so nice to have a centralzed back up of everything and all computers in the house. If someone ‘accidently deletes’ their entire iTunes library, *boom* a few minutes later, all back up. Same with pictures. And the feature to host pictures on your own server is a Godsend, especially with kids.

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    Oschi says:

    The HomeServer will help me with my 300GB music, videos and photos and will make it easier to manage it and stream it. Also the backup function will help to save our 3 PC’s=).
    Maybe he gets a TV card, so he can record my movies on the TV.

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    Dana says:

    This would help us to centralize all of our photos.We are constantly taking pictures,downloading video, etc.. and this would be so much better than what we have now!!! We have stuff everywhere. I like the fact that it will be Noise level Whisper Quiet!!!

    zippieee@msn.com

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    Kathy Scott says:

    I have a bookkeeping business and this would be great for backing up my client’s Quickbooks files.

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    sandra says:

    subscriber

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    sandra says:

    the slin dimensions are quite attractive. this would help me and dad manage all our digital files, especially since dad has become a facebook fanatic!

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    C. Marshall says:

    The fact that I would never have to worry about graduate papers being lost to a failed hard drive makes this home server sound worth the price.

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    Cecile says:

    I have your button.

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    Cecile says:

    I am a subscriber.

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    Cecile says:

    We have photos stored in so many places, this would help keep them all in one place without the fear of losingthem.

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    Samantha says:

    My dad is the smartest guy I know, he has so much need for storage and he would spend days figuring out every nook and cranny of opportunity this server could offer him!

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    Bonny S. says:

    I subscribed to your newsletter!

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    Bonny S. says:

    I just tweeted about this giveaway.
    http://twitter.com/bonmay

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    Bonny S. says:

    This would help me protect all my data on my computer, by backing everything up.

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    CC says:

    I subscribe speechforme gmail

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    CC says:

    Since we use 3 different computers, this feature would be so helpful to us: “* Access your media4 anywhere with an Internet-connected computer”

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    Khrys says:

    have your button!

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    Khrys says:

    subscribe!

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    Khrys says:

    This HP MediaSmart Server LX195 will definitely help my DH out. We have pix & videos from different types of media! He also has PS3, CDs, & DVDs. I’m techno-challenged but this will help simplify our life. My DH would love this!

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    Jacqueline Sampson says:

    Where do I start?? It took my husband and I to have a successful pregnancy and now have our miracle baby…so naturally one can assume that we take pictures every chance we get :) Wo this would just make everything so much easier!!

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    Justin Gall says:

    Holy crap! I’ve been waiting for something like this for my mac. I’ve got all my photos, cd’s, on numerous hard drives, and I’ve been looking for something to be able to wirelessly stream my music and movies to my computers, and my tv. Awesome, with that I’d be able to stream my music through out the house, and be able to watch my backed up movies ANYWHERE!

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    Sarah Reed says:

    I subscribe to your feed via Bloglines!

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    Sarah Reed says:

    I subscribe to your newsletter.

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    Sarah Reed says:

    Oh my gosh! We are BIG picture takers and I worry about losing all my photos if something would happen to my computer. This would be perfect! I went through a scare a couple years ago and thankfully the tech was able to get all our photos back.

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    Kaje says:

    I love that is has a scheduled back up feature on it. This will come in so handy with those days I forget to back up my computer. We just got a laptop to travel with and I love that we can back up both to the server. Pictures? We have pictures galore. Videos too and the grandkids love watching movies on the computer. I would be able to stream those movies faster to them if I was able to move some of the bigger files (pictures, videos, files, documents, programs) to the HP MediaSmart Server LX195. What a piece of machinery! I am drooling over here!

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    Kaje says:

    I subscribe, very happily! :)

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    Maggie M says:

    I follow mommygoggles on Twitter as “Smokeysmom” and Tweeted this fantastic giveaway: http://twitter.com/smokeysmom/status/2181131246

    maggie@mannwieler.com

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    Maggie M says:

    I am subscribed to your newsletter by email :)

    maggie@mannwieler.com

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    Maggie M says:

    This Server would help us so much! I am working on a blog that we want to set up on a separate server but worry about the cost, effectiveness and capacity of such a server. The HP Server sounds perfect for our new blog. In addition, we have loads and loads of pictures on our home server. And, although I scrap many of them, we are always worried about losing them in the event of a computer crash. All of our photos are on my husband’s computer server, not mine, so an overload is definitely possible. To win the HP Server would be such a blessing for us.

    maggie@mannwieler.com

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    tung ton says:

    could always use another source for backup!

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    cherice says:

    I subscribe :)

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    cherice says:

    I love that you can stream to your stereos and TVs through a gaming console (we have the PlayStation3). Hubby is a big electronics fan so he would go nuts for this! Thanks for the chance.

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    Johnny P says:

    I set one up for my dad last year. It has been a life saver! In addition to easily storing all of his pictures on the home server, the automatic backup is incredible. His main HD completely failed and we were able to replace the HD and restore the data from the home server withing a few hours and it was exactly like it was before the failure! I can’t recommend a home server enough!

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    Jaloney says:

    Wow! This could really help us out. We have a laptop that doesn’t work half the time and a desktop that does pretty much the same. I have hundreds of photos on my computers and we are starting a business so to be able to have back up would be so ideal!

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    Melissa Barnes says:

    i subscribe

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    Melissa Barnes says:

    this would be great for my husband to have everything centralized – it would make life a little easier – love how you can shae music libraries on it too

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    JDSG says:

    I blogged about the giveaway.

    http://lebizyb.blogspot.com/2009/06/mommy-goggles-giveaway-from-hp.html

    JDSG
    lebizyb(at)q(dot)com

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    JDSG says:

    I subscribe to you via email

    JDSG
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    JDSG says:

    I have your button.

    JDSG
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