Chances are, your computers hard drive is filled to bursting point with tens of thousands of photos, thousands of MP3s and hundreds of videos. And chances are, you hardly look at any of those photos, occasionally listen to the majority of your music and rarely watch all those videos. That awkward waste of content could come to an end if you win the HP MediaSmart Home Server we’re giving away this week.
Thanks to HP, we’ve got one of their recently updated MediaSmart servers to give away. With a 2.2GHz Celeron processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM and support for up to 17TB of data, the home server can both store your content, back up your content, as well as let you access your content from any number of devices across your home network.
To win the HP Mediasmart home server, we want you to tell us in 25 words or less in the comments below, “What could you do with an HP MediaSmart Home server?”. The best entry will take home the prize!
More info on the HP Mediasmart server here at the HP website.
Competition closes December 3 with winners to be announced on December 6.
Good luck!
[T&Cs]
Nathan Norgan
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:04 PMWith a HP Mediasmart server i could finally centralise my media devices. Currently i have windows media center with dual DTV tuners, a FetchTV box and XBOX 360.
With the media smart server it could all be centralised and all my devices could play movies and more.
Evan Gibson
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 2:47 PMEver since the move to LCD monitors my cat has missed having somewhere warm to sleep. A nice case full of lovely warm data would be perfect!
Peter McHardy
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 3:44 PMNumpty alert … 25 words or less.
Amanda Miotto
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:13 PMA HP Mediasmart server in my home would become my entertainment hub. I could use it to store all my household music, movies and photos. It would be fantastic to use at a party (stream music, show the photos that I had just taken of everyone there)
Owey
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:15 PMi would use it as my new night l;ight as i am scared of the dark
Peter Maher
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:16 PMI’d run MythTv from it.
Michael wants his privacy back
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:17 PMI’d reclaim my fortress of solitude (bedroom) so that my housemates would never never come to me with thumbdrives begging for entertainment again!
drsoda
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:19 PMi’d probably take it home, make it a nice digital meal, show it the family photos, give a drink of bytewine..
Joel
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:21 PMin a house with me and two flatmates, we NEED centralized storage and streaming! currently all media is being streamed to over 12 consoles, via one desktop PC with no redundancy! :S
it’s only a matter of time until there’s a failure and we lose TB’s of data!! none of us have the money to build a server, or fill a simple NAS with HDD’s… one of these MediaSmarts would be brilliant!
Nathan Lowe
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:22 PMThis HP Mediasmart server enables me to have peace of mind and know that my data is safe when I install new HDD’s in my PC.
Joy Toh
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:22 PMFinally I could revive my poor neglected HDTV in living room as media centre since now I can only watch movies and online in bedroom.
KID9
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:23 PMi could watch anime until my eyes bleed
Keith Drain
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:26 PMWith a HP Mediasmart Server I could finally get rid of all my USB hard drives and neaten my office.
Dylan Mazurek
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:28 PMMove all home videos, music and photos so my family could access them anytime even when sitting around the pool. Also backup my University work.
I love servers :)
<3 u Gizi
Carlo Andreucci
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:30 PMA HP Mediasmart server would get my soon-to-be wife off my back as i have 10+ Hard drives around the house. She’s a clean freak!
Jahn
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:33 PMMy house would have more media showing across more screens than the whole of the UK’s Big Brother… I mean CCTV system.
Andy Keating
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:35 PMFinally my wife can stop asking for access to my Laptop so she can see photos of the family as we could centralise and share all media. This would rock!
Gabbo
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:35 PMWith an HP MediaSmart Home server i could take over the world!
Cam
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:36 PMI would replace my 500mhz pentium3 server that has 256mb of ram. It does the job for sharing out files though, just (mostly because wifi is marginally slower than it).
Andrew
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:37 PMMy Media Center is a bloated iniffecient server and backup for too many people’s laptops. Give me my toy back! Go bother the server!!
Eddie
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:39 PMI can reliably store my entire life in a box.This will provide peace of mind to the countless hours of HD video recording I have accumulated.
Ryan Harrison
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:41 PMA) Bragging Rights to say a i have a server in my house :D B) I wanna hoard I NEEDS IT ALL!!! BWAHAHHAHAHAH C) Possibly Start an Evil Empire by Pir8ting Media (according to the MPAA) =D
James
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:44 PMAn HP MediaSmart server would allow me to back-up my precious memories, whilst also providing easy access to my media from anywhere on my network. My Music, High-Definition Videos and photos could all be accessed by any device in the house!
Peter McHardy
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 4:28 PMThere is almost no answer for this post. Lets simply say 25 words or less and call James a Numpty for that!
bri_cheese
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:45 PMI’d take those shiny LEDs and make a homemade Tron outfit and pretend I’m Olivia Wilde. ;)
Alex
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:47 PMThe height (70cm odd) of the HP MediaServer seems like the right size to act as a small side table for my sofa where I can put my beer and ashtray.
Fistbeard McTavish
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:51 PMStore data on it. By data, I mean porn. Maybe regular backups of my PC’s. Maybe.
Ryan Harrison
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 4:34 PMdont be silly… once you’re “data” is on there you wont have room for backups!
Reece Barrell-Smith
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 1:51 PMIf i won the HP MediaSmart Server i would sleep on it. Like pirates of old who slept on their gold my photos are gold.