[cirrus]

I just bought a few days ago the EX490 which I am still waiting for. I was wondering if you can answer some stuff for me.

1) 17Tb is the max this WHS can hold and recognize?

2) I just really want to use this to stream movies to my ps3 will the celeron chip be good enough? I will rip my movies on a pc and transfer the WHS using external WD Passport. If not is the E6300 worth it?

3) Does the WHS OS that comes with the ex490 come with a 64bit version because if it doesn't then why do people put 4gb of ram when only 3gb will be recognized by a 32bit os?

thanks for the help

[Evaders99]

1) How did you get that number? Really its limited to the amount of physical and external drives you can attached

2) If you have to do any transcoding, the E6300 is probably worth it

3) No. It is only 32-bit. 3GB+ is still better than 2 Gb :)

[cirrus]

Hp says 17tb is the max ex490 and 495 can hold

[Urmaster]

cirrus, on 09 March 2010 - 07:04 PM, said:

I just bought a few days ago the EX490 which I am still waiting for. I was wondering if you can answer some stuff for me.

1) 17Tb is the max this WHS can hold and recognize?

2) I just really want to use this to stream movies to my ps3 will the celeron chip be good enough? I will rip my movies on a pc and transfer the WHS using external WD Passport. If not is the E6300 worth it?

3) Does the WHS OS that comes with the ex490 come with a 64bit version because if it doesn't then why do people put 4gb of ram when only 3gb will be recognized by a 32bit os?

thanks for the help

1) No limit as such, but only 2TB per partition (or disk don't remember which) can be added to the pool.

2) Celeron is fine for streaming, hell I could stream from my phone. You should only require a more powerful processor for video encoding or multiple serving tasks at once.

3) Currently WHS is x86 only that means it can only manage up-to 4GB of memory.

[cirrus]

Thanks for the help. Let's see how this bad boy works right out the box.

[Urmaster]

cirrus, on 10 March 2010 - 12:34 AM, said:

Hp says 17tb is the max ex490 and 495 can hold

Ignore this; it's a practical limit based on the maximum size of a single 3.5 HDD available to the consumer. The is no theoretical limit you'll meet other than that which can be added per partition.