![]() ![]() I’m using version 9 for this guide, so if you’re reading this far in the future and a new version is out that you can’t get working. Ideally a 4GB memory upgrade in your MediaSmart Server for using ZFS (but you can always just choose a different File format on the NAS, I have only 2GB and use RAID 3).(ok, it’s not that fast but it’s bloody quick to be up and running, took me less than an hour without a guide). Stick the kettle on as it may have boiled by the time you have finished this whole process.A Blank CD and CD-RW or another USB Thumb Drive of at least 1GB (or a Zalman Virtual ODD)). ![]() A USB Thumb drive (at least 1GB, but 2GB would be ideal).A 3.5″ SATA Hard Drive (you need something to store your files on right?). ![]() ![]() This is a work in progress too as I’m sure there is a better way to have done this, but I haven’t figured it out yet. (you will use the use of one of your drive bays in this process, but you don’t need a drive in it.) Also, standard clause, you are doing this at your own risk, I am not responsible for any damage to your devices. This probably works on the EX490 and earlier versions of the Media Smart server like the EX480 and EX485, but you need to test it. I actually thought the microserver didn't feel as well built but it had VGA.This is really great to do, I was happy to find it was incredibly simple to get this all up and running. I killed mine several years ago in favor of an HP Microserver. There was a guy who made & sold cables to plug into the motherboard header but the supply was always limited as he did it for fun.It was good kit once upon a time, but it was designed to run windows home media server & was very tightly specced for that. In their desire to make it "easy" and not intimidating for end users HP sort of crippled them for homelab people. These things were kinda beloved by their owners in their day, but the gymnastics you had to do for a clean OS install got kinda excessive. It was neat at the time but the market went elsewhere. It could stream movies and if you installed an agent on your laptop it would do baremetal level backups of the OS for you & store them on the server. As a media device it was actually kinda cool. You were never supposed to actually hook a keyboard to one, it was all controlled via a web browser or RDP if you were fancy. Before streaming took off there was a brief moment when microsoft tried to get into the buisness of selling home media devices. ![]()
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