By Philip Churchill on December 15th, 2009
Macworld Reviews the EX495
A mini review of the EX495 MediaSmart Server from HP is up on Macworld.
…but Mac audiences should be warned about the unfriendly Mac setup process. Best suited for a mixed PC and Mac environment, the EX495 is hard to endorse over more Mac friendly media servers out there.
What are your experiences of using the EX49x with the Mac? You can read their review here.
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I am very happy with my HP DataVault X510 (similar to EX495) even though I have a Mac centric household (6 Macs, 1 PC). Backup works great (time machine). I cannot comment on restoring though (luckily). Media collection is not very accurate and I disabled it, moving the media files manually over to the DataVault. All the shares and folders show up in my Mac Finder and I started to manage my files through the Mac Finder rather than through the HP Console. Overall the experience is excellent. Only little disappointment so far: I cannot connect to the DataVault remotely. But this seems to be more of a problem of my router than the Mac’s.