I'd like to see pictures of the motherboard and the front view without the smaller cage door.

From what I read, the heat sinks are different on the 2 models.

Great to hear that the port multiplier is not only AWARE, but even more AWARE, it can see the 5 drive Sans Digital esata case.

Also the fan is now on the rear making it quieter.

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HP MediaSmart EX495 E8600 3.2Ghz CPU, 4GB ram, 8TB storage including 3TB drives in pool. WHS with Active Directory, WDS, Media Center Master, Logitech server. Office 2010 server with client add-ins.
Microsoft MVP - Windows Home Server.

... and with improved hotswap & hotplug support (which imo is more than a little flaky on the EX47x)

I'm sure we'll see the images here first... we've always been spoiled like that (Thanks yakuza!)

Check out Alex's closer look at the inside of the EX495. http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2009/09 ... -hardware/

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HP MSS EX490 with Intel E6300
4 GB RAM
7 TB Drive Storage

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