korith

Oddly enough, the reason I end up shutting them down every 6 months or so, is so I can blow the dust out of them.

I've got a n54l and a n40l. Many times when I see a deal posted up, I start considering an upgrade, problem is once you start adding up all the parts you're well over the cost of the hp microserver. I suppose it really depends on your needs, if you need a cpu with more power, or need to fit in more drives it's probably worthwhile.

Thanks for the link. Looks like an improvement over the 150w in the original n40l.

Remember to apply the bios mod to it so the drive in the top bay will run at full speed. You can add one more drive there easily enough.

Followed a link from homeservershow and came across to this page. Anyone try adding a nic to their box to boost performance? from the wiki page "A cheap alternative for users wanting to boost the standard 1Gbps of the Microserver is the Intel EXPI9301CTBLK EXPI9301CTBLK. " http://n40l.wikia.com/wiki/Network_Interface_Cards_%28NICs%29

That seems to be the universal key. Also paperclips work well.

In the u.s. ? I can see if I can get a key made, if the store carries the blank.

Probably hurt more than help HP I think. Pretty much every tech site had an article about how bad an idea it was. Certainly make folks think twice about buying the items affected by the change. Bios updates should be free, especially if they fix bugs/issues in the original bios. Gonna hurt the used equipment market too for sure. Though I imagine unofficial sources for the bios updates will end up all over the place. Using the hacked bios as well.

I think many people will be having this problem. Here is a post talking about hp limiting support for the proliant, http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7099-hps-new-rules-to-access-firmware-driver-downloads/ Think just a matter of time before forums where this microserver are popular start putting download links up.

Been using rc10 without any issues. No errors. N46L, 4gb ram, 2 3tb and 4 2tb drives. Always good to make a backup of your flash just to be safe if you upgrade.