There were many times in the past months that HP advertised in the Star for the N40L. Just flipping the ePaper in my phone on one of the past papers from July 30th and I got it on page 4 on Biz News section or page 60 of 72 as a whole main paper.

Don't know much about Ubuntu but have you tried different cable? Perhaps tried different router?

Why can't people read? I just replied on post #1256 just above a few post before this.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Sep 13 2012, 03:08 AM

Today is my luck day. Went to HP Store in LYP. They have the last unit of N36L. Grab it without second thought.

Guess I am the lucky one. I told him the box come with 2GB RAM. He gave me a 2GB RAM, so I have 3GB RAM now. Although it might useless once I upgrade to 16GB RAM.

This post has been edited by loonsave: Sep 13 2012, 10:02 PM

ah bugger figured it out. in my router i limited the allowable number of IP clients to 10, but didnt take into account that it started from xxx.xxx.x.0 to xxx.xxx.x.9 for 10 clients. my server was the 11th client so technically it didnt exist in the system. Not too sure why Wifi I can access but not through cable though. Anyway problem solved!

Maybe your wifi is in the DHCP lease pool. So you can't get the new IP from LAN after the pool depleted.

Ohh.. so lucky... how much you got it?

YES To my surprise this little gems is still available in the market !! Congrats loonsave! Can't remember whether the customs firmware is available for N36L or just N40L, but worth the upgrade to bring the max value out of this N36L! have fun.

I get it at RM699. Last piece.

Yeah. I swipe my card without 2nd thought. Just installed Win2008 DC into it. Haven't get any HDD yet since the price still high.

argghh... u beat me to it.. was planning to go down there today. wondering anyone knows where got stock at this price? Hope to hear good news...

anyone wanna sharing this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEXUS-TECHNOLOGY-D...006%26rk%3D1%26

Add another 2 HDD at DVD slot.. maybe can share shipping cost..

So, that means we got to pull a sata cable to the eSata port at the back for the 6th drive right? I was looking at this too previously, so I wud join this group buy if the way it works is as described..

@jchue73, do you run RAID for your N36L? I do know that the box itself only support RAID 0 and 1. Possible that we have a tweak to run RAID 5? Preferably hardware RAID without additional cost.

yup.. need to find esata-to-sata I believe.. suppose got.. But I use another raid card from IBM server..


The raid is software based.. It's not the real raid. I just sold out M5015, IBM raid card.. selling between 250-280. Support raid 5 with battery backup. It's coz 1k new.

But software raid compromise the reading speed, and what if the OS corrupted? The software raid gone as well?

What I means is, the raid that's come with hp micro server is fake raid aka software based raid. Not the IBM raid card. Sorry a bit confusing.

So doesn't matter you use os level raid or hp micro server raid its both software raid. Only advantage is, you can configure through bios and by having the driver the os will see the raid.. OS level raid need to boot into os 1st.

Corrupt os will not effect the data. After reinstall should be able to get the data back.

Congrats. He gave you an additional 2GB memory stick? Wah, lucky you.

The hacked BIOS can be used on both the N36L and N40L.

Interesting. Have you checked if after install in the N36L, there is space to fit two drives on top of each other?

Yup. You need the hacked BIOS though and a eSATA to SATA cable which is very difficult to find.

Where got such thing as hardware RAID without additional cost? If no cost, try the built-in software RAID in the Windows Server 2008 R2 under Dynamic Disc.

That's cool. What transfer speeds were you getting from the RAID card? Do you still have the IBM RAID card? Might be interested.

If you mean software RAID under Dynamic Disc that you get from Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Home Server 2011 or Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 or Windows Small Business Server 2011 or Windows 7, yes it affects the speed. I have not tried myself perhaps those with experience can post some figures.

Anyway, this is what I get using RAID 0 from the N36L BIOS (aka Fake RAID) under RAIDXPert with 4 x 3TB WD Red drives;







Yup.

I'm running the old school method of BACKUP...I guess that is why Microserver gives us so many USB ports lol...save the headache of RAID, and I have full access to the max capacity that HPM can provide...only do a schedule backup and synchronisation every x hours on partitions or folders that are critical to me..So the double deck is alain item I wud love to own ... Aneip, are u based in KL?

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Added on September 15, 2012, 12:08 am Good that u got ur self the RED drives.. It is somehow quite sought after here so much so that I can't even get ready stock from wd distributors...crazy demand..

This post has been edited by numbertwo: Sep 15 2012, 12:08 AM

Yeah, I think the guy is a new staff.

Wow, RAID 0 mean 1 disk failed and you will lost all data. So dare devil.

I just notice the N36L HDD bracket don't come with screw. Screw it.

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Either I go for a software RAID 5 or I just leave it 4 disks run separately... Definitely not hardware raid as I can't afford for a hardware raid controller.

This post has been edited by loonsave: Sep 15 2012, 01:11 PM

all the screws you ever need is located on the inner side of the door. go read the manual.

Thanks bro. I am a typical guy who didn't read the manual.

HP N36 does have a raid card but last time I enquire it's too expensive to ship in from UK.
I wonder if the price have drop?
Or any alternative hardware raid that is a cheaper?