Digital information, we have it, we all collect it and in fact we are collecting more and more of it all the time. As I have mentioned before everyone these days is likely to be experiencing their very own digital data explosion. Almost on a daily basis we are all creating or downloading more and more digital content, in the form of documents, digital images, mp3 files etc. This means we really have to start thinking about things like large disks to hold all of that data and ensuring we are making regular backups to ensure that data remains available.

Now if you have more than one computer in your household, and lets face it these days just about everyone does, you are multiplying this need for disk space and having to perform multiply backups. One solution to this problem is to centralise all your storage to a server, and by doing that mean that a backup only needs to be done once to protect the whole household’s data.

A potentially nice idea, but apart from setting up a separate computer configured as a server, there isn’t too many options on the market. Probably the only on is the HP MediaSmart Server. This admittedly expensive bit of kit which runs Microsoft Windows home Server provides centralised storage and can serve data securely to all users on a network, backing up their computers as required. If you are thinking about this sort of thing then the MediaSmart server is worth a look. I predict that we will see a lot more of this sort of thing in the future.