On 01/14/2013 09:03 PM, John R Pierce 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).
Ah, thanks for that. I thought that it may be something along those lines.
In which case, for testing purposes, they'd be ideal; the drives I'd use would be relatively small & the load would be pretty minimal most of the time.
Much obliged.
Cheers,
Phil...