I order a Q9550S. I saw in other posts people installed this CPUs in the MSS. I guess we will se how it goes. I had a intel Celeron and i can tell you they are not good enough for a server ( in my opinion). It might work for you. I notice they tend to run a lot slower than the actual speed.

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Can you link to one of these monsters? Needing a good 4 or 8 bay USB enclosure....

(Sorry everyone, shortly, I'll retreat out of the DIY forum and go to the lowly 485/487 or general forums.... but rest assured.... I'll be back!)

Here a link from newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

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@cubinblood, you'd be surprised how easily they get filled up. I'm already at 11TB full. I music, music videos, movies, pictures and applications on my server. I got my server for christmas '09 and it took me a month and a half to organize and transfer all my media from my other computers to my server. When it was it was all said and done, I had almost 6 TB's of stuff on it just from my other computers alone, it was 5.7 or 5.8, I forget, then the rest of the items came from downloading movies and music. It's April 1st and in a little over a month and a half I got 5TB's of stuff. I only have 18 so I'm going to be purchasing a 8 bay usb Sans Digital enclosure.

Also, the Q9550S works like a charm, it was a huge improvement over the stock processor. I also upgraded my memory to 4gb and it helped out when I have mutiple task running simultaneously.

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HP Mediasmart Server EX495 (18TB)
Intel Q9550S 2.83 GHz Processor
8TB HDD (4 x 2TB Hitachi Deskstar's)
4GB Memory (Kingston KVR800D2N6/4G)
Sans Digital Towerraid TR5UT eSata
10TB HDD (5 x 2TB Hitachi Deskstar's)