Stick with HP N54L or DIY build

flame696 · 14 Mar 2015 at 21:08

Just a quick question, I have a HP microserver N54L which consists of an SSD for OS (win 7) 2 x 2tb in RAID 1 a 2tb as back up and a 3tb as back plus ive got 2 x 3tb external hard drive also used for back up.

Now im running out of space to add more hard drives as im running out of space for my photos. Now i can get bigger drives or was thinking about using my old htpc (amd 5300 fm2, msi matx board, fractal r2) as a server just upgrading the ram. The case gives me the flexiability of adding more drives.

I use it mainly as a plex server for my movies, pics, home videos and music.

So should i stick with the microserver and getting bigger hdds or using the parts i have and just add the extra hdds i havd laying about??

flame696 · 16 Mar 2015 at 13:56

Really ive got 5 drives in mine, one is an ssd for the OS. How did you get 6??

flame696 · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:32

might look at adding another HDD might get a pci card

flame696 · 17 Mar 2015 at 15:25

I think that what im going to do thanks for that

flame696 · 18 Mar 2015 at 22:35

Ive decided to stick with the n54l as its just a nice compact system and it does exactly what i want and nlw i know i can add up to 6 drives its a no brainer

flame696 · 19 Mar 2015 at 16:38

fish said:
Before i swapped out to a bigger server i had 9 drive in mine 4x2tb 3.5s in the bays, 4x 2.5 first (320gb then 2tb) in the 5.25 bay and a sshd mounted under the 5.25 in behind where the badge is. I only changed as I wanted to increase size of drives to 4tb after a couple died but it was fine like that for 3 + years. Was a N36l BTW, also had a r7 240 in there with a marvel sata card for more ports.

You crammed a lot in a small box