Nas Box or Microserver

[KIA]

now been advised on a buffalo link station live v2 by a friend amy ideas what thease are like...funny opened a can of worms with all the options lol

Not worth it. Go with Synology if you don't like the DIY approach.

 

[roachyuk]

ahhh nps thanks for the heads up....cant make my mind up lol....what to get

 

[BloodyL]

My personal experience is that if you just want a simple network file store then a NAS is the way to go, if however you think you might want to make use of the device for other things then get a microserver.
I should have bought a microserver, there's too much faffing and hacking involved in getting the NAS to do other things for my liking.

 

[drizzy]

I faced a similar situation but ended up buying N40L and chucked ubuntu on it. It's good.

Upside: I can do whatever I like with it.
Downside: It takes a bit more time to set up.

 

[Kiyoshi]

I got a HP Microserver with the £100 cashback offer, it's excellent and we use it all the time. I more or less run it 24/7, it runs uTorrent and 99% of our data is stored on it. We've cut our PC HDDs down to just a Windows SSD and a single regular hard drive which was a big improvement on the amount before!

Since I bought it I've put 4x 2tb Samsung F4s in, plus a small HDD for the OS and run Windows Server 2008 R2. I bumped the memory up to 8gb and plan to run backups from there like the poster above, maybe install ESX and create a test domain for helping me with my MCITP.

Lots of options and really pleased with it.

 

[roachyuk]

I faced a similar situation but ended up buying N40L and chucked ubuntu on it. It's good.

Upside: I can do whatever I like with it.
Downside: It takes a bit more time to set up.

is this linux operating system and does it work fine for a media server aswell?

 

[drizzy]

Yeah, ubuntu is a linux distribution - but if you have to ask that question, you might be better off with WHS or going the NAS option!

 

[DJMK4]

Microserver love mine

 

[HarryPainful]

Microserver.

No brainer.

 

[TehJumpingJawa]

+1 for HP Microserver. Awesome value for money.

Stick in a modest low profile graphics card, and xbmc, and you've got yourself a media centre too.

 

[roachyuk]

Yeah, ubuntu is a linux distribution - but if you have to ask that question, you might be better off with WHS or going the NAS option!

maybe but can always experiment....lol...money isnt a issue either not looking for the cheapest way just the best way...looks like a microserver can be fun...rather than a normal nas box lol

 

[roachyuk]

hp microserver n36l v n40l is the difference only the cpu speed...or are there other performance upgrades on the n40l ?

 

[TehJumpingJawa]

hp microserver n36l v n40l is the difference only the cpu speed...or are there other performance upgrades on the n40l ?

The n40l comes with 2gb of ecc ddr3 as standard; the n36l had only 1gb of ecc ddr3.