rilles Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 (edited) While trying to debug an issue on my main handbuilt unraid system, I wanted to build a second test system and I wound up getting my hands on a free Acer H340 with bunch of 250GB drives in it. By default it has Microsoft WHS on it and at first would appear to be designed so that all it can do. After lots of googling I found a way (dip switch) to enable entry into the bios so that it can boot from a USB stick - normally it boots from internal flash but no GUUID that I could see for unraid. Replaced the dusty tired 120mm fan with a Noctua 140mm fan designed to fit into 120mm mounts (the drives in there would heat up over 40C during parity) The system runs nicely now, it has a Intel Atom cpu with 2GB of RAM. Picking up one of these on the cheap you can turn it into great basic NAS box. Edited February 9, 2018 by rilles Quote Link to comment
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