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  • CrunchDeals: 50% off the HP MediaSmart LX195

    CrunchDeals: 50% off the HP MediaSmart LX195

    I liked everything about the HP MediaSmart LX195 Windows Home Server except the price. It's fast and quiet. The software suite is extensive and even includes compatablility to OS X's Time Machine. But the $399 MSRP is totally not worth it for only 640GB. Thankfully HP has a deal on the server right now.

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  • Review: Acer easyStore H340

    Review: Acer easyStore H340

    Windows Home Servers are dropping in price and the Acer easyStore H340 is leading the charge; I like that. This server doesn’t offer a lot of extras like the HP MediaSmart line, but it’s amazingly low price outweighs everything else. Specs: Intel Atom 230 1 TB hard drive 2 GB DDR2 memory 5 USB 2.0 ports 1 eSATA port Gigabit Ethernet Hardware: This [...]

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  • PSA: Contests & giveaways reminder

    PSA: Contests & giveaways reminder

    Greetings. This is just a friendly reminder of the contests and giveaways that we have running right now. None of these require you to photoshop anything, take a random pic, or anything that requires any effort at all. Just visit the posts for the details. That is all. Thank you for your attention. HP LX195 Windows [...]

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  • CrunchDeals: HP LX195 for $375 with a free 1TB external HDD

    CrunchDeals: HP LX195 for $375 with a free 1TB external HDD

    The only beef I have with the HP LX195 is the price for the amount of storage. Newegg must have heard my cries as the retailer is now throwing in an Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB USB external hard drive. That means, you can get 1.67 TB of storage in a Windows Home Server for only $375. Now that's a deal, but you better hurry as it ends on 6/25/09. Don't forget that we are giving away one of these servers in our recent review. Just leave a comment in this post to be entered.

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  • Review and Giveaway: HP LX195 MediaSmart Home Server

    Review and Giveaway: HP LX195 MediaSmart Home Server

    Short Version: The LX195 is great back-up solution for both PCs and Macs. It’s a tad overpriced and lacks expandability, but is still a solid Windows Home Server. Oh, and there’s a contest. Specs 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 1GB of DDR2 RAM 640GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD 4 USB ports 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet MSRP of $399 Hardware HP knows how to make quality PC cases [...]

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  • Daily Crunch: Smoking Room Edition

    Daily Crunch: Smoking Room Edition

    OLED display-camera combo may have sci-fi-ish applications A mechanical flash drive too cool to be steampunk Windows Home Server + Humidor = Home Servidor

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  • Windows Home Server + Humidor = Home Servidor

    Windows Home Server + Humidor = Home Servidor

    Who doesn't want a working cigar humidor that also has a Windows Home Server with 2TB of storage? No one. Mainly because everyone's smoking room also doubles as their server room. After all, cigar smoke and computers are meant to hang in the same crowd.

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  • First look: Acer easyStore H340

    First look: Acer easyStore H340

    We just took delivery of Acer's first Windows Home Server, the Acer easyStore H340. So far, so good. The machine is heavy and well made. It feels just as good as HP's EX series. I am thinking that HP's might have better cooling with a Mac Pro-type front, but we'll run some tests and see if temperature is even an issue with the Acer. Hopefully this machine preforms as well as it looks. If it does, HP has a problem as this 1TB WHS is only $399 verses the $647 post rebate price for its EX487 1.5TB model. That's a big difference and it doesn't matter how much extra software HP is loading on it. Price and storage is the most important selling points on these servers. Anyway, click through for a gallery of unboxing pics.

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