On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:03 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 1/14/2013 7:24 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
Looking at the specs for N40Ls though put me off because they're rated at 150W. Or am I missing something here?
that may be the PSU rating, but 55W active is more typical, and thats with 4 3TB 7200rpm SATA drives.
btw, those AMD Neo CPUs are no slouches, they seem quite a bit faster than the equivalent Intel Atom processors.
I have a N40L with 8GB ram and 4 x 3TB running FreeNAS off a 4GB USB stick (internal), runs quite nicely. 8.1TB (binary) usable with ZFS raidz... its functioning as my home SMB and Media server, I get a consistent 80MB/second reading/writing large files from a windows desktop -> freeNAS using windows file sharing over gigE, thats about as good as it gets (the SATA drive on my desktop formatted NTFS probably isn't much faster).
+1 on the setup. ,I have it with 10GB ram (I found out that this ram block: Corsair XMS3 CMX8GX3M1A1333C9 also works in the HP N40L, so in theory you could go to 16GB ram, 8GB cost me €30).