@jchue73, is that possible to upgrade the MOBO in N36L ? If yes, i don't mind getting N36L and upgrade in future if at all necessary..

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Added on February 8, 2012, 3:53 pmThis is the total cost quoted from Amazon US if I were to ship it back...

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Order Summary
HP 658553-001 ProLiant N40L Ultra Micro Tower Server System AMD Turion II Neo N40L 1.5GHz 2C 2GB (1 x 2GB) 1 x 250GB LFF SATA

Items: $275.85
Shipping & Handling: $131.50
Total Before Tax: $407.35
Estimated Tax To Be Collected:* $0.00
Order Total: $407.35

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This post has been edited by numbertwo: Feb 8 2012, 03:53 PM

Just exploring possibility , not necessary to n40L spec.

WD Green WD20EARS - cost about RM250 before the flood(sept '11), i'm sure it cost 400 min or more now... Please can you PM me your seller in lowyat who is able to sell this 2TB below 300 now? Thanks.

I got a response from a HP reseller in PJ for N40L.. It's back-2-back order with 2-4 weeks lead time. Anyone interested? Price would most probably be somewhere around 1.3-1.4K, w/o OS.

haha..the WD Green certainly won't be selling for 249 now, otherwise I'm pretty sure this seller will run out of stock under 15 minutes he put up the offer in our garage sales here..

320 has been priced like that in KL even before 2012 in All-IT mall for example.. Yes the 320, not the 323..

can't remember bro becoz i have basically take this out from my NAS list due to poor comments found on the net.

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Added on February 9, 2012, 11:16 amif u guys don't mind an over spec HP model just for media storage, u may consider ML110 G6, $1388 promo price according to the reseller.

This post has been edited by numbertwo: Feb 9 2012, 11:16 AM

It is a server spec, running on xeon so i guess power consumption won't be low..but expandability is there for sure.


So, anyone wanna tag along to get the N40L ?

as i read the feature of JBod does not have any data redundancy feature, is that bearable to you?

Hi,
do you have any experience with unRaid ? apparently this raid can support incremental HDDs..and it runs off a USB drive..

as usual, the next one the sifus here will recommend u will be synology or qnap.. happy hunting.

I guess price and size factors alone will prohibit us from using 2.5" into our valuable HDD server slots. But there is such a idea being implemented, see this

how's this going CocoMongo?! has it arrived yet..?

if u have already fully utilized the 4bays, do you need to change the power supply to power up these additional 2'5"s?

I'm gonna place an order for N40L(from local authorised hp distributor), estimated cost will not more than 1.4K. If anyone here interested to join the purchase PM me... Only 1 or 2 orders max.

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Added on March 2, 2012, 4:13 pmHi ,
wonder if anyone has converted the optical drive in N36/N40L to 5th 3.5" HDD? Is there any special type of caddy to be used?

This post has been edited by numbertwo: Mar 2 2012, 04:13 PM

ok, this is certainly one good option if we can pool these 4 2'5" drives into one single pool , separated from the 4 sata 3'5".. I can then use that 4x2'5" for important documents and make it raid5/raid10, and the other 4sata 3'5" will just be a JBOD(just media .mkv files, nothing important)..

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Added on March 5, 2012, 10:57 amsince HD is so expensive now, getting 4 2'5" is killing.. so a cheaper solution to convert 5.25 to 3.5" http://www.lelong.com.my/hard-disk-bracket...2-03-Sale-P.htm

This post has been edited by numbertwo: Mar 5 2012, 10:57 AM

Just collected my N40L today..
now I have to decide what to go for in terms of OS, my few choices are :

1. Freenas or OpenMediaVault, and one that has to have bittorrent(utorrent) server for seeding purpose.. This is easy opt as I can boot the OS thru the USB in the MOBO..

2. Windows Home server 2011 - No idea where I can get a copy as I read it only comes as OEM copy (ie. bundled with Acer Revocenter)..

3. Windows server 2008 R2. I have access to this. This will take up a HDD which I don't quite prefer, and i wonder running this R2 would consume more power than say Freenas since it may have many services that run on the background which I don't really need..

Any inputs and comments are most appreciated!

well..$1328 for the basic unit + $68x2 to 'downgrade' the standard 2GB ECC to 8GB Non-ECC RAM (ready for MS Server R2 installation in case my attempt to get the OMV runs on USB fails my expectation)

just wanna ask.. have you succesfully converted the ODD bay to house the extra 3.5" HDD in ur N36L? I wonder if this works : http://www.lelong.com.my/hard-disk-bracket...2-03-Sale-P.htm

The package includes 2GB ECC, 250GB Seagate 7200 HDD, A Sata DVDROM.. that's it..

The SATA DVDRom has a Sata power cable and a Sata Data cable, I wonder if this fits the 250GB Seagate 7200 that comes with the box as I am going to put that 250GB into the DVD bay?

none of the HP shops in Klang Valley sell this, except the only one computer shop at 1U that has N36L in stock...it was a back-2-back order from my co.'s HP distributor- ECS Star, shipment from HP S'pore.

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Added on March 16, 2012, 11:42 pm@jchue73... Hi , I wonder were you using the 'Install from USB' method when you did the R2 installation?

I'm hit with 'windows could not determine if this computer contains a valid system volume" issue after chosen a partition to install into..

USB from Mobo is the first boot drive - this is where I
And I'm trying to install R2 into the ODD drive..

google from the net, it seems that Win R2 assume the first boot drive is where new boot drive would be and apparently it recognize that it is an USB hence doesn't allow the installation to proceed..

I am thinking to install the DVD drive, and put the 250GB back to the cage - then move it back to the ODD replacing the DVD drive.. A hardway if there is no other way..

pls share your experience?

This post has been edited by numbertwo: Mar 16 2012, 11:42 PM