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It's back.
Newegg has the N40L Microserver again.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=59-107-052&nm_mc=EMC-GD021813&cm_mmc=EMC-GD021813-_-index-_-Item-_-59-107-052
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Solid deal...
Tempted to get another one for work I'd do it if I didn't have to buy another $400 in hard drives. :)
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Anybody have any experience dealing with one of these with a broken mini-sas clip?
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I have one of these. Too noisy for my taste so I threw it in a closet
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Just $40 list price different bet'n two model. :worship:
N40L List $349
N54L List $389
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Great for an unRAID or FreeNAS server.
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Which would be better for Media serving? It be for MP3s and BD ISOs.
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I wish there were 2 more drive bays, actually 4 more would be ideal. I have one collecting dust, while I got a big case sucking up all kinds of power running esxi and freenas running 8 drives. I...
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You can always go with the Biostar board for another $15...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138368
I don't think most people are buying ECC RAM when expanding the...
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I might just have to pick up one at that price. 250 for a nas/pc system is perfect.
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There are pros and cons to both. There is a long thread discussing this at the XBMC forums, with strongly opinionated people on both sides of the argument. For me, the ability to easily expand the...
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Just a bios mod that among other things enables hot-swapping. Personally I'm not sure I'd use it since it invalidates the warranty....
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You probably need a proper server with a redundant PS if you are running a business critical application (the Gen & HP Proliant are pretty good) and I think email qualifies for one.
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It's possible because the newer model, with the N54L, has been released. Basically a CPU bump. So if demand shifted to the N54L then there could be a channel dump of older N40Ls to clear. But right...
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I can tell you from working at Dell that they would never know that you flashed the bios with a modified version unless you told them.
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I bought one of these for $59 last year, but never got around to using it. I ended up selling it on ebay for $275 two months ago.
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Finally put mine together yesterday from the deal back in march of 2012, still have to decide what to do with it software wise
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no harddrive?
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Anyone knows if this processor is powerful enough to transcode one 1080p stream with Plex?
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I will wait for N54L for same price. N40L is 1.5GHz v/s N54L is 2.2GHz
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So is this thing good enough to handle SBS 2008 (or 2011) and Exchange?
We don't use our server anything more than managing the domain and exchange and our current one is acting up badly and needs...
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this is a pretty good deal but i found you can do alot more with WHS 2011 on a custom built box like because the hardware is kind of limiting. I built a WHS 2011 machine that has 8 GB of ram and a...
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Maybe your unit has issues? I built one for a friends SOHO just to backup his laptop and store some files with an external R5 box. When I was setting it up on my desk, it was so silent I couldn't...
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Solid little NAS.
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Don't forget you need to add memory, 250GB hd and a power supply to you list. and then spend time building it up.
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Um... not quite
1. "Built-in 200 W Flex-ATX power supply" is included with the case
2. I have 0 use for the 250GB drive. Will be SSD boot + eventually RAID 5/6
3. I have little use for the 2GB...
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Celeron 847 is a bit faster, cheap raid card == software raid + extra element for raid failure. ZFS or reFS is better for home use.
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Comes with 250GB hard drive.
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Does anyone think the N40L will ever get near $200 again? I'd pull the trigger is it was below $220. I really want one of these. I bet I'd see a electricity savings over the course of a year with...
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Mine does 1080 mkvs just fine using PS3 Media Server. It pegs the CPU, so I don't do other things at the same time, but it works. I hate transcoding, so I only do it when I want to watch something...
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i wouldn't count on it. that turion is pretty much like a glorified atom running on two cores. check its processor ranking as compared to others
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This is a terrible idea, if you are thinking about running exchange on a box like this you should be on hosted exchange/gapps
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Couldn't you get an external 4 bay eSata enclosure and tie it all together with a good RAID card?
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that's what figure. If the cpu was just a little more powerful, it would be a pretty slick server.
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I read somewhere you can actually use 16gb RMA with no issues other than the fact that it wont be supported. Food for thought
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Finally! had just missed the previous offer. Cant wait to build up this puppy with 4 2tb drives... all our files finally nice and neat in stead of all over multiple drives!
After loads of...
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How does this server stack up against this combination...
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/a7879
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135342
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That ECS MB has only 4 sata ports, need use add on card if you need more than 4. N40L has 6 Sata ports.
The ECS MB use laptop ram and has only 1 ram slot, first laptop ram is always more...