The EX495 Media Smart has 1.5TB of storage which includes three empty bays, 4 USB ports, and one eSATA port, giving it a host of expansion options. EX495 server is one of the best NAS servers for homes or small offices. This cheap Media Smart server consists of 2GB of RAM, running the Home version of Windows Server 2003. The HP Media Smart Server EX495 is shaped like a mini tower computer. On the back of the server are another three USB ports and an eSATA port. These ports are used solely for additional storage. They don’t support anything else, such as a printer or USB camera.
The HP Media Smart EX495 share the unique photo management feature of HP NAS servers, which is the Web-based Photo Publisher application, which can be launched from the HP Media Smart Server Control Center. The features allows for uploading photos stored on the NAS directly to popular photo-sharing sites including Snapfish, Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook. The EX495 comes with 1.5TB of storage and three empty bays for another three SATA hard drives. The EX495 also comes with excellent backup solutions.
The EX495 server is consistently faster than most NAS servers and is comparable to most USB external hard drives. This is impressive as typically direct-attached external hard drives are faster than any network storage devices. Uptill now the Media Smart EX495 Server have proved to be the second fastest NAS server.