Comments on: HP MediaSmart Server under Mac OS X

By: New HP MediaSmart Home Servers on the Horizon

New HP MediaSmart Home Servers on the Horizon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:40:49 +0000

[...] technical abilities of the new servers and includes a table on which features work with Macs. (via MSWHS [...]

By: Syed Shani

Syed Shani — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:48:31 +0000

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By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:59:28 +0000

Also, HP says that Boot Camp is not supported for an initial PC installation (in case you want to use the MediaSmart in an all-Mac environment).

While HP says it’s not supported, Windows Home Server does support Boot Camp. I really don’t see any reason why HP wouldn’t support this method unless they haven’t tested it throughly. I’ve done full system restores with Boot Camp from WHS… it works great.

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:57:51 +0000

Of particular note to Mac users, HP’s Time Machine support prohibits a full system restore. That means that if your hard drive fails… you’ll have to recover each and every document manually. Oh, and be stuck reinstalling all your software by hand.

The good news is that I’ve come up with two workarounds. One for you the user, and one HP could implement.

http://www.christopherprice.net/hp-mediasmart-now-does-time-machine-well…-not-all-of-it.-but-i-can-fix-it.-796.html