diehard Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 There have been some sales during this US Thanksgiving Holiday Season. As much as $200 off. Some resellers are posting that stock has run out and discontinued by the manufacturer. HP have recently trained their staff on the Drobo, could this be why ? Maybe HP has been influenced by the news that Microsoft will be removing DE from WHS version 2 and do no want to invest in building a MediaSmart Server RAID version. To costly ? What do you think ? Will you buy a MediaSmart Server before they run out of stock ? Should you ? http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/16546/EX490-495-Discontinued/;jsessionid=5CAF055069E5E0AABE86A28E96B9E72C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usacomp2k3 Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 It's spelled "rumor" ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britishbob Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 I thought that it was spelled "rumour" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andne Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 You're all wrong, it's spelled 'truth' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehard Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 I'm Canadian, like the Brits, we spell it colour while US spells it color. We add a bit of flair Both are right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usacomp2k3 Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Too bad it's not courrect ;-) What you say could be true though. Hope not, as the MediaSmart were really what gave WHS its only visibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britishbob Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 all this spelling stuff is disorientating me:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cskenney Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 IF HP actually was deciding to discontinue the MediaSmart line and it is related to DE then they have known for quite a while. The supply chain from PCB to populated motherboards, cases, etc. seem to me like it has to be longer than 2-3 weeks (I know it is in my line of work). For inventory to run out at some sellers would mean that HP was already thinning out the supplies. Was it related to VAIL or did they also come to the conclusion that the WHS boxes were just not making them enough money to keep them in their product line. Don't forget, HP also just removed the 3.0 upgrade disk availability. Why would you take away an upgrade path for your customers if all you had to do was sell the disks you already possessed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest no-control Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 or did they come to the conclusion that the WHS boxes were just not making them enough money to keep them in their product line. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 I like the flair diehard. Any votes on whether or not WHS dies as a product if HP pulls out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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