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Hands On: HP StorageWorks X510 Data Vault

By on October 9, 2009 in Hardware, Reviews, Small Business, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Reviews

Installing the HP StorageWorks X510 Data Vault

Once the power and network cables are connected, simply power on the Data Vault, and run the Installation CD on one of your computers.

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I was quite delighted to find how simple and how painless it was to get connected to the X510.  Pop the CD in and it does all the hard work for you via a simple wizard.  Whether you purchase an EX495 for your home or an X510 for your business, HP has has done a nice job to get you up and running quickly.

The Data Vault 3.0 Dashboard

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The Data Vault offers the same software suite as the new EX49x MediaSmart Server series, with a range of media-oriented applications including Web Media Streaming, iPhone Streaming, Server for iTunes, HP Media Collector, HP Video Converter, HP Photo Publisher, Media Server. You can find a full run down of these add-ins in this week’s HP EX495 MediaSmart Server review.

The Data Vault can back up and restore both PCs and Apple Macs – files and folders as well as the base operating system, which is a unique selling point for the product. With many businesses increasingly running a mixture of PCs and Macs, you can be assured that the Data Vault can look after them all. If you’re comparing the Data Vault to a competing NAS device, you won’t find the same power, flexibility or ease of backup and restore in any device on the market today.

If you are on the Home Office side of SOHO, you might just find a use for the media-related apps – just because this system is positioned for business doesn’t mean it can’t be fun, right? Business people can have fun too!

Perhaps there was some logic behind keeping the software suite the same for the consumer and business sides. However, HP may have missed a trick in not launching the Data Vault line with a few business-oriented applications. Perhaps a document scanning and retrieval add-in like Digital ArcHound, POP3 email add-ins like VPOP3 for Windows Home Server, or calendar management add-ins? Hopefully, HP will seek to develop these in the future to allow a more distinct differentiation between their consumer and business products.

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About Jim Clark

Hello. I’m from the heartland of the U.S. Lots of corn and beans, although Iowa is a lot more than just farmland. It also has a few computer enthusiasts (no, not me!). I’ve been around PCs since I got my 1st PC XT aloooong time ago. WGS is one of the first sites I found centered around WHS. And the best. Every once in awhile, I do get away from the KB and enjoy time with and my wife and our 4 kids. And I do have a day job.
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  • PaulJG

    Nice review.

    I suspect the X510 is a sort of trial balloon to begin differentiating the utilities for SOHO apart from the 'home' server line, and I wonder if the engineers at HP will begin to add SOHO-specific utilities in their next release.

  • rune

    Does anyone have any view on the EX490 comparted to the X510? What's the major differences and such?

    I live in Norway and the EX495 is not available here. Therefore these to are my choice. However Im uncertain is its really necessery to buy the X510 instead of the EX490.

  • benjay

    Same for me in Germany. Neither the ex490 nor the ex495 is available in Germany and I doubt HP will change this. Although I`m really close to that company ;) I have to choose the X510 if I want to go for a HP WHS. The price is, compared to some online stores, affordable and ok from my side (1TB version around 470€).

    As I will replace the internal System disk with a 2GB version anyway, in order to get the 8GB max. storage capacity I do not care about the loss 500GB.

  • daemon

    I would seriously recommend you getting an 2TB drive instead of an 2GB drive
    are there really so small sata drives ? flash drives maybe?

    sorry just cant help myself when people make such typos ;) hihihi