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1. REMOVE DATA FROM HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 64 BIT
2. REMOVE DATA FROM HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 WINDOWS

Maybe, I wondered, this little guy could be pressed back into service. The solid chassis is smaller than the three Lord of the Rings books, and the nifty locking hard disk drive carriers are nicer than those found on many servers today. I wasn’t going to take the little MediaSmart until I saw how well-made it was. Although not exactly up to today’s standards, this hardware is decent enough to consider resurrecting.

REMOVE DATA FROM HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 64 BIT

The first single-drive MediaSmart EX470 (and identical dual-drive EX475) featured four 3.5″ SATA disk drive bays, a gigabit Ethernet port, a single-core 1.8 GHz 64 bit AMD CPU, and 512 MB of RAM. Inside Home Server was Microsoft’s innovative Drive Extender software, giving these devices Drobo-like flexibility.

REMOVE DATA FROM HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 WINDOWS

HP released the first MediaSmart server in 2008, and there was much interest at the time both for the compact yet innovative hardware and the embedded Windows Home Server operating system. This old HP MediaSmart EX480 is out of retirement, with more memory and Linux! Remembering the MediaSmart Here’s how I upgraded the hardware and software. Although it has no graphics, a slow single-core AMD Sempron CPU, and just 512 MB of RAM, I was able to revive it quite satisfactorily. I was recently given an old HP MediaSmart EX470 server along with some other junk hardware.