HP EX47X owners

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Just seeing if anyone uses the HP ex475/470 and has had positive results. I just picked up a 475 and upgraded the ram to 2GB and doing to start loading up my server.


Edit: Anyone have the HP 3.0 upgrade disks?
 
Got my EX470 almost a year ago when it was on sale on Newegg. Loaded it up with 2x1.5TB, 1TB, and 500GB drives. Upgraded the RAM to 2GB shortly after. Still running pre-3.0 software.

I freakin' love this device. I bought it to protect and organize my growing media collection, and it does a near perfect job at it. It handles all of my background tasks (downloads, podcasts, VPN, etc) and it backs up select shares to an external hard drive once a month automatically. It's relatively small and portable; I've lugged it around to friends places and LAN parties as a nice, fast, 'limitless' storage device for sharing games and media.

My only gripe (other than it being an old EX470) is that if you have network issues, it gets pretty ridiculous trying to connect to the device. I spent the good part of an hour packet sniffing and switching cables around when the device didn't play nice with my school's network (but this is more specific to any networked, headless computer).

HP 3.0 Upgrade Discs can be purchased through HP's web site for about $30.

-Cool-
 
Happy you like your 470 cool. My only problem is that for some reason its copying at only 10mb a sec (on gigabit network). Also sucks that HP upgrade disks are $30 and now just a free download.
 
Good to hear, I'm thinking about going after the EX495 to replace my aging and heat producing WHS (Texas summers do not need help heating my home). Every review I have read seemed to say some pretty good things about HP's Home Server series.
 
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