I was going to wait until it got closer to Thanksgiving to pick this up, but I'm willing to pay $429, especially since the EX485 isn't much cheaper and the EX487 is more expensive ($600+) for some reason
$429 is a good price. I just bought it for $475, and that was also a good price (this is the new model that is hardly on sale out there yet).
Why to buy this one, instead of the EX495?? Because you can buy and E6300 processor for $75 and make it more powerful... (That voids your warranty though, but it is an easy upgrade...)
These MediaSmart servers are pretty cool. I got the EX470 from Newegg when they were selling the refurbs. I have transferred all of my music, video, pictures while it'll stripe it across all of the spindles (folder duplication they call it). Buy this and get a few of those 59 dollar 1TB drives from Fry's and you're set!
zoltano said: $429 is a good price. I just bought it for $475, and that was also a good price (this is the new model that is hardly on sale out there yet).
Why to buy this one, instead of the EX495?? Because you can buy and E6300 processor for $75 and make it more powerful... (That voids your warranty though, but it is an easy upgrade...)how'd you know that the mobo could take both celeron and dual core?
"1.0 TB SATA 7200 RPM hard drive; 3 open expansion bays for Hard drives - (Total Capacity 9TB)"
Anyone know how they come up with 9TB Total Capacity? 9TB divided by 4 drives = 2.25TB per drive But, how can that be? Largest drive available today is 2TB.
will792
Member
posted: Nov. 1, 2009 @ 5:25p
It has eSATA connector. So 1GB system drive + 3 2GB user installed internal drivers + 2GB external SATA drive.
SweetBaboo said: zoltano said: $429 is a good price. I just bought it for $475, and that was also a good price (this is the new model that is hardly on sale out there yet).
Why to buy this one, instead of the EX495?? Because you can buy and E6300 processor for $75 and make it more powerful... (That voids your warranty though, but it is an easy upgrade...)how'd you know that the mobo could take both celeron and dual core?
"I can attest to the E6300 running cooler than the stock 490 Celeron. It actually uses less power at idle.
Using the stock 490 Celeron I recorded the following results: 48C (min) 71C (max) - used Core Temp to monitor min and max temperatures under Prime95 44W (idle) 54W (full load) - used Kill A Watt and I am running two drives (stock 1TB and 750GB WD)
The stock Celeron ran Prime95 extremely slow perhaps because the Celeron has very little cache memory.
Replacing the stock Celeron with a E6300 yielded the following results: 32C (min) 65 (max) - Ran 90 min Prime95 test, used Arctic Silver 42W (idle) and 70W (full load)"
"It was a simple drop-in and didn't require any BIOS tweaking (at least in my case)."
TonyG2 said: Whats the speed difference between this and a NAS? Im trying to decide and cant figure out the difference. Thanks
You can think of a NAS as a simple external hard drive that hooks up to your network. The Mediasmart is a Windows Home Server appliance. It has all the function of a NAS, and more. It's basically a full blown computer that is dedicated to storage and back up. You can configure it to automatically back up all your computers in your home.
gorky
Addicted Member
posted: Nov. 1, 2009 @ 11:11p
Anybody knows just noisy this thing is? Is it feasible for a home office?
zoltano said: $429 is a good price. I just bought it for $475, and that was also a good price (this is the new model that is hardly on sale out there yet).
Why to buy this one, instead of the EX495?? Because you can buy and E6300 processor for $75 and make it more powerful... (That voids your warranty though, but it is an easy upgrade...)
Are you kidding me? Upgrade the processor in these things? It's a bit overkill as is. Unless you want to hack it into something else, the Celeron 2.2 is more than enough. I have a home built WHS with 24 tb running a 1.8 ghz Celeron with no problems what so ever. It even handles RAID functions!
As to how noisy these are? I've never had one sitting right next to me in a quiet room, however, I've seen and used them at a microsoft function, and didn't notice noise being noticeable at all.
gorky said: Anybody knows just noisy this thing is? Is it feasible for a home office?
THX.
Very quiet. There's even apps people on mediasmartserver have coded to control the RPM speed of the fans. Mine is sitting right here by me, does not bother me.
fast shipping from NJ to NH. ordered on Nov. 1 and received today
sles
Happy Member
posted: Nov. 3, 2009 @ 7:00p
I wouldn't spend a dime on any HP product. For the hundreds of thousands of people who bought their laptops with the defective video card problem, HP will graciously repair the motherboard for a mere $419 with no extension on the 12 month warranty. Even the video card manufacturer has aknowledged that it's bad and overheats, ruining the processor or shutting down after 5 minutes. Just because they're big doesn't mean they can get away with selling junk.
sles said: I wouldn't spend a dime on any HP product. For the hundreds of thousands of people who bought their laptops with the defective video card problem, HP will graciously repair the motherboard for a mere $419 with no extension on the 12 month warranty. Even the video card manufacturer has aknowledged that it's bad and overheats, ruining the processor or shutting down after 5 minutes. Just because they're big doesn't mean they can get away with selling junk.lucky for the rest of us, this isnt a laptop.
and as much as i despise my HP work laptop, laptop problems are a common thing in alsmot every laptop maker. to single out HP for your problem, when as you say thousands of people have also bought and seemingly not had any problems, well i dont think we need to comment any more about your threadcrapping.
Cashman said: Very quiet. There's even apps people on mediasmartserver have coded to control the RPM speed of the fans. Mine is sitting right here by me, does not bother me.
Unfortunately MSS Fan Control only works with the EX47x models, as HP moved the fan policy into the BIOS in later versions of the server.
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