Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on April 11, 2015, 19:35:00 PM
Why do you need so much RAM in it if its just doing Freenas?

I don't I just like to max stuff out and keep my options open

Quote from: Binary Shadow on April 11, 2015, 18:53:06 PM
Very happy with my G8, very nice bit of kit

Running 16Gb RAM, 4x 3TB SATA discs and an 8GB USB flash drive to boot freenas

Have you used the remote management care in it yet? Do you know what you end up getting without a licence? So very tempted at this price, but I really don't need it!

talking about the ilo4?

without the advanced license you can turn the power on and off or send a reset. with it you get a full remote session/kvm. this is pretty standard on all hp servers.

Yeah, only used the DRAC on the Dells before, which I didn't need to worry about any licensing.. Pretty pointless without the licence though by the looks of it then

Mate of mine bought this on the deal then found a Xeon processor for cheap and basically upgraded it to the £400+ one by spending about £200.

Hello, I'm New on this board.

I searching information about additional HDD in optical drive
You talking about this item : http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0001UZQWG/ref=nosim/

Can i add 2 HDD with it ?
(in order to have 6 * 2T )

i search a solution to have this in my N40L


thanks

Yeah that would be fine for fitting a single 3.5" drive in the optical bay, but won't hold two, not sure if there is a proper mount to get two in there..

£99 + £4.95 p&p after cashback.

Can't go wrong for £104...

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Edit: just realised this offer only becomes effective tomorrow, hoping the cost does not go up!

good thread.  I have the N36L with modded BIOS, running WHS 2011.  I have an SSD slotted under the optical bay, and 4 x HD's in the 4 bays, and also have a removable HD enclosure in the optical bay.  I like to slot hard drives into the caddy for backups but want to replace multiple back up drives with one larger drive, so my question is - what is the maximum sized hard drive that the N36L/WHS 2011 can see?

So the N36 to the N54 are all the same bios..

When I wrote the original post, 3TB drives were about as big as you could go.. at the time 3TB were supported, although you could only boot from a 2TB max (As stated in the 2nd post)

After a quick google people are running 6TB in the 4 Bays, and pretty much if anything supports 3TB it should support any size greater.

But for some reason the optical bay seems to be limited, and wont play nice with large drives.

Quote from: XEntity on July 31, 2015, 21:36:33 PM
So the N36 to the N54 are all the same bios..

When I wrote the original post, 3TB drives were about as big as you could go.. at the time 3TB were supported, although you could only boot from a 2TB max (As stated in the 2nd post)

After a quick google people are running 6TB in the 4 Bays, and pretty much if anything supports 3TB it should support any size greater.

But for some reason the optical bay seems to be limited, and wont play nice with large drives.

Excellent - I am booting off an SSD too, and also have a 3TB running in one of the bays with no issues.  Hopefully if I get an 8TB drive and stick it in the optical bay removable slot then I can just back up to there without the need to swap drives anymore !

Quote from: bathingape on July 31, 2015, 23:03:44 PM

Quote from: XEntity on July 31, 2015, 21:36:33 PM
So the N36 to the N54 are all the same bios..

When I wrote the original post, 3TB drives were about as big as you could go.. at the time 3TB were supported, although you could only boot from a 2TB max (As stated in the 2nd post)

After a quick google people are running 6TB in the 4 Bays, and pretty much if anything supports 3TB it should support any size greater.

But for some reason the optical bay seems to be limited, and wont play nice with large drives.

Excellent - I am booting off an SSD too, and also have a 3TB running in one of the bays with no issues.  Hopefully if I get an 8TB drive and stick it in the optical bay removable slot then I can just back up to there without the need to swap drives anymore !

No like I said, the optical bay appears to have a 2tb limit, the 4 bays will take anything..

Quote from: XEntity on July 31, 2015, 23:56:36 PM

Quote from: bathingape on July 31, 2015, 23:03:44 PM

Quote from: XEntity on July 31, 2015, 21:36:33 PM
So the N36 to the N54 are all the same bios..

When I wrote the original post, 3TB drives were about as big as you could go.. at the time 3TB were supported, although you could only boot from a 2TB max (As stated in the 2nd post)

After a quick google people are running 6TB in the 4 Bays, and pretty much if anything supports 3TB it should support any size greater.

But for some reason the optical bay seems to be limited, and wont play nice with large drives.

Excellent - I am booting off an SSD too, and also have a 3TB running in one of the bays with no issues.  Hopefully if I get an 8TB drive and stick it in the optical bay removable slot then I can just back up to there without the need to swap drives anymore !

No like I said, the optical bay appears to have a 2tb limit, the 4 bays will take anything..

ahhh ok so not an issue to take one of the existing HD's and stick them into the optical bay, providing their < 2TB and stick the 8TB one in it's place.    I've just ordered an 8TB literally 5 mins ago

Yeah that should work :-)

Does anyone have the Win8.1 / Win10 network drivers (2013) for this? The HP site is a nightmare...

EDIT
After a bit of reading I went to the manufacturers site in the end:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/?gid=9