OT HP N40L server

Just noticed Misco still have these at £170 inc VAT AND £100 cashback.
Ebuyer £209.

Has to be the bargain of the century!!

Tim.

 

Scrub all that, mis-read it ! Boo.

 

Excellent. They'll be shifting stock old, the N40L is deceased and the
N54L is the new one.

They're the most superb home NAS boxes you could find - I've got two,
as setting up a second one to backup the first one to was cheaper than
getting a USB cage!

Cheers - Jaimie

 

Aw. Still, eBuyer at £109 is also great.

Cheers - Jaimie

 

The ebuyer one is £210 before the cash back.
the Misco one is £170 after the cash back.
I will leave it to the reader to work out why Ebuyer is cheaper.

PS they only have 49 in stock ATM.

 

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I can see how he misread it, if you search Misco for N40L it shows the price
after rebate and its not until you click on it that it shows the normal
price.

 

+1. Just sits there, minds its own business and gets on with it. I
use mine headless now and manage it over VNC.

Surprisingly quick too, given the cpu it has.

I'm about to add a third 2Tb disk to the LVM volume, supposedly this
can be done without losing data... we'll see!

I think for the cashback offer to have run for so long HP must be
sitting on a warehouse full of the things.

 

Misco are not alone in trying to confuse buyers.

 

I bought my N36L's in their *second year* of cashback... they brought
out the N40L (200MHz quicker CPU), discounted that its entire life,
and now the N54L is about to hit the shelves.

HP are not known for having any sense whatsoever in the PC market, but
when it plays to our advantage that's fine!

Cheers - Jaimie

 

Forgot to mention I stuck a small SSD in mine for the OS (CentOS). Made
a helluva difference, more than I expected.

 

What's better in the N54L, worth an upgrade?

 

Nah, I think they just ran out of the slower chips.

http://www.wegotserved.com/2012/12/07/hp-proliant-microserver-n54l-full-specs/

Cheers - Jaimie

 

AMD Turion™ II Neo N54L (2.2GHz)

That's 50% faster?

 

N40L is the same dualcore chip at 1.5GHz, N36L at 1.3GHz.

All of them are too slow to transcode movies, which is about the only
thing a fileserver/mediaserver might need CPU grunt for. The slowest
N36L is fine kicking data around a network at 100+meg/second on GigE.
So it doesn't really matter which you get.

Cheers - Jaimie

 

Not quite. I am using mine as a desktop.

 

Sure, but I was talking about just "a fileserver/mediaserver".

Cheers - Jaimie

 

Mine seems fine using TVersity, although the majority of the output is to a
1080p display.

 

Is that transcoding, or just streaming? I'll be amazed if it'll do
real-time transcoding at 1080p.

Cheers - Jaimie

 

It'll take any video file I give it and it'll stream to an Xbox 360. Beyond
that I'm not sure

 

Cor - colour me amazed then! That's pretty startling.

Cheers - Jaimie