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JonRB
39,472 posts
141 months
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MagicalTrevor said: I feel a bit ripped off that I didn't get a 24" monitor with mine. It's a scam I tell you! 
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BliarOut
53,509 posts
108 months
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JonRB said: MagicalTrevor said: I feel a bit ripped off that I didn't get a 24" monitor with mine. It's a scam I tell you! I've run my business on one for two years now.... Right bloody rip off 
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SlidingSideways
676 posts
101 months
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On the N40L, does the shipped 250Gb disk take up one of the 4 HDD bays?
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thewildblue
261 posts
42 months
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Yes it does, but you can move it up in the cdrom bay...I've currently got 6 drives in mine...the top ones rest on each other with some plastic inbetween.....hehe
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graphene
881 posts
24 months
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JonRB said: ATM said: So for £100 you get a chassis with no OS or HDD/s? Jesus. What would it take for you to consider it a good deal? A computer for free, some money for your bus fare home, and a B-J?  atm, apparently.
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JonRB
39,472 posts
141 months
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thewildblue said: Yes it does, but you can move it up in the cdrom bay...I've currently got 6 drives in mine...the top ones rest on each other with some plastic inbetween.....hehe Pffft. You're not trying hard enough. You could get 8 in there by using one of these in the upper bay.  
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MagicalTrevor
4,807 posts
98 months
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I got a 5.25" to 3.5" adapter and stuck the included drive in the optical drive bay. I've actually used sticky backed velcro and stuck an SSD to the back of the server (above the large fan) so I now have: - 64GB SSD - System Drive
- 500GB Caviar Black - 'Odds and Sods' disk
- 2x2TB Caviar Green - Data
- 1x2TB Caviar Green - Backup
With the device that JonRB has posted you could easily get 9 disks in total if you had enough SATA ports
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Nimbus
1,120 posts
97 months
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JonRB said: Pffft. You're not trying hard enough. You could get 8 in there by using one of these in the upper bay. where from ?
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Nimbus
1,120 posts
97 months
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MagicalTrevor said: I got a 5.25" to 3.5" adapter and stuck the included drive in the optical drive bay. me too.. but why the ssd as a system drive ? or was it a spare you had lying around ? of course if you are just using it as a file server, then motherboard mounted usb is the way to go, gives you 5 sata ports immediately I was measuring the power consumption of mine the other day, and while its impressivly low, my qnap-209 is even lower.. So the qnap is going to be retired just yet... think my proliant has been on 24/7 for nearly 2 years now, and no problems whatsover, they are great bits of kit
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MagicalTrevor
4,807 posts
98 months
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Nimbus said: MagicalTrevor said: I got a 5.25" to 3.5" adapter and stuck the included drive in the optical drive bay. me too.. but why the ssd as a system drive ? or was it a spare you had lying around ? of course if you are just using it as a file server, then motherboard mounted usb is the way to go, gives you 5 sata ports immediately I was measuring the power consumption of mine the other day, and while its impressivly low, my qnap-209 is even lower.. So the qnap is going to be retired just yet... think my proliant has been on 24/7 for nearly 2 years now, and no problems whatsover, they are great bits of kit It was lying around. I'd upgraded my desktop machine to a 256GB SSD and had that spare... so why not  I've got no reason to have the 500GB Caviar Black in there either ... but I have. Geek rules, doesn't have to make sense!
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tim2100
5,984 posts
126 months
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I have the 250Gb with a 3.5 to 5.25 converter fitted quite snuggly in the top bay.
I have server 2008 R2 installed currently but feel that it is overkill and doesn't really provide the streaming and backup services I want.
Thinking of getting WHS 2011, as i believe it is more suited to my needs. does anybody else run WHS over server 2008?
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69 coupe
1,595 posts
80 months
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Nimbus said: JonRB said: Pffft. You're not trying hard enough. You could get 8 in there by using one of these in the upper bay. where from ? I was intrigued too, did a bit of google foo & found it in the uk from play.com good price compared to some of my other searches. http://www.play.com/Search.html?searchstring=SATSA...
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MagicalTrevor
4,807 posts
98 months
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tim2100 said: Thinking of getting WHS 2011, as i believe it is more suited to my needs. does anybody else run WHS over server 2008? 
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thewildblue
261 posts
42 months
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JonRB said: Pffft. You're not trying hard enough. You could get 8 in there by using one of these in the upper bay. They don't look like 3.5 drive bays.... ;-) I don't have any ssds as I need storage not speed.... :-)
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69 coupe
1,595 posts
80 months
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They take sata 2.5" drives (laptop drives )so that 4 drives can be fitted into the space of a cd-rom enclosure.
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recalluk
653 posts
105 months
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69 coupe said: They take sata 2.5" drives (laptop drives )so that 4 drives can be fitted into the space of a cd-rom enclosure. Looks at the 6 SAS Drives and Adaptec 3805 on his desk and wonders ?!?!?
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69 coupe
1,595 posts
80 months
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Go for it you know it makes no sense! PH Matters
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SlidingSideways
676 posts
101 months
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thewildblue said: Yes it does, but you can move it up in the cdrom bay...I've currently got 6 drives in mine...the top ones rest on each other with some plastic inbetween.....hehe Cheers. Thought that was the case but wanted it confirmed. Not sure I can afford to fill all the bays PLUS 4 drives in the ODD bay with the current disk prices, nice to know for the future though
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MagicalTrevor
4,807 posts
98 months
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recalluk said: 69 coupe said: They take sata 2.5" drives (laptop drives )so that 4 drives can be fitted into the space of a cd-rom enclosure. Looks at the 6 SAS Drives and Adaptec 3805 on his desk and wonders ?!?!? I suspect you're not really serious but be careful about you choice of RAID controller, you can't fit one that has the connectors on the side as the drive bay blocks the connectors. Also try and get on that can utilise the SAS connector currently used for the backplane that's installed already. Basically, this rules out most of the cheap cards from ebay!
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lestag
3,796 posts
145 months
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MagicalTrevor said: I suspect you're not really serious but be careful about you choice of RAID controller, you can't fit one that has the connectors on the side as the drive bay blocks the connectors. Also try and get on that can utilise the SAS connector currently used for the backplane that's installed already. Basically, this rules out most of the cheap cards from ebay! I use a HP410 array controller has 2 SATA/SAS connectors .. .cost as much as the N36L !!!
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